Lecturer and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Modern Art and Design; media theory
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2009
Jeffrey Saletnik studies twentieth-century art, with emphasis upon the German, Dutch, and Russian traditions, modernism, pedagogy, and creative exchange between Europe and the United States. Formally trained as a musician, he also is dedicated to forging correspondences between the visual arts and music. He is currently preparing a book manuscript that examines how Bauhaus-indebted pedagogic methods and practices were expressed in America and how artists working in non-visual media were drawn to Bauhaus ideas; significantly in relationships between the work and teaching of Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy, and John Cage. The text establishes a new trajectory for understanding the proliferation of the Bauhaus in America and draws attention to correspondences among seemingly disparate creative practices and media. A new research project investigates the “pedagogic object” as a means for sensory modal understanding. He has presented papers at the College Art Association Annual Conference, The Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University, and Tate Modern; published on Eva Hesse and Josef Albers; and co-edited Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse, and Modernism (Routledge, 2009).
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