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Marni Kessler

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Prof. 19th-C French art. Thinking about aerial & subterranean environments, materiality, & always gender | Books (UMinn Press): Discomfort Food: The Culinary Imagination in Late 19th-C. French Art; Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet's Paris

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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thrilled to see my “Weathering (the Elements) in Charles Baudelaire’s ‘À une passante’ and Jean Béraud’s A Windy Day on the Pont des Arts” out in this fabulous and juicy volume! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Weathering (the Elements) in Charles Baudelaire’s ‘À une passante’ and Jean Béraud’s A Windy Day on the Pont des Arts
In ‘À une passante’ and A Windy Day on the Pont des Arts, Charles Baudelaire and Jean Béraud represent Paris as a dynamic space filled with rushing people. Scholars have productively examined this ...
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Such wonderful news! Congratulations!!
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
In addition to being a contributor to this special issue, I needed, as @rmesch.bsky.social knows, T&F’s permission to republish a 2021 essay from the same jrnl & they wanted to charge me @ $2000! I haggled and they gave me a50% “discount.” For my own work! Needless to say, not republishing it!
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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Have any other academics experienced the dystopian future of AI copyediting? In a kafkaesque doom spiral with @tandfonline.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social as their bot randomly reassigned authors to texts. Just one example of zillions of errors introduced, impossible to communicate with
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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
WWW: The Vilhelm Hammershøi Digital Archive (ViHDA) arthist.net/archive/52568
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The Vilhelm Hammershøi Digital Archive (ViHDA)
Anne Haack Christensen, Copenhagen
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
LA/Pasadena peeps- Please join me if you can on Saturday @5pm at the Norton Simon Museum, where I’ll be speaking about Degas’ engagement with coal smoke in his extraordinary paintings of ironers: www.nortonsimon.org/calendar/202...
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Char/Coal/Smoke: Edgar Degas’s “Women Ironing” and “The Laundress” in the Norton Simon Museum, Ecocritically
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
You shouldn’t have been put in that position! I’m so sorry! I know it was hard, but good for you for giving your paper in full!
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Wonderful to see this collection, to which I contributed an essay on the gorgeous (and sand speckled) Monet on the cover, come up in my feed!
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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🆕🎧: Publishing leaders look back at decades of transformation and tenacity in the industry. A conversation for the occasion of director Doug Armato's retirement, with Lisa Bayer, Greg Britton, Jennifer Crewe, Dean Smith, and moderator Bill Germano. share.transistor.fm/s/5c6c6e92
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Retirement special: Publishing leaders look back at decades of transformation and tenacity in the industry. | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 126
Douglas Armato, the fifth director in the University of Minnesota Press's 100-year history, will soon retire after 27 years of leadership at the Press—following an almost-50-year career in book publis...
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Your podcast/conversation on book reviews is also excellent! It’s so thoughtful and clear, and I’ll be assigning it to grad students podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Stephanie Porras on Book Reviews
Podcast Episode · The Academic Publishing Podcast · 10/21/2025 · 54m
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
What a lovely idea! Mine seems somehow even more appropriate than usual on Thanksgiving! www.upress.umn.edu/978151790880...
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Discomfort Food
An intricate and provocative journey through nineteenth-century depictions of food and the often uncomfortable feelings they evokeAt a time when chefs are ce...
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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
We are losing a true publishing genius, someone who could stay focused on the thinking and writing that is our purpose, while innovating in forms and the university press break-even form of business.
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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
CFP: Connecting Ecocritical Art Histories (Cambridge, 8-10 Apr 26) arthist.net/archive/50721
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Connecting Ecocritical Art Histories (Cambridge, 8-10 Apr 26)
Maurice Saß. Cambridge (AAH Conference), 08.–10.04.2026, Eingabeschluss : 14.11.2025
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Oh, you would have loved it! Sorry you didn’t get to see it in person, but delighted that you got to hear about it from Jodi! We were supposed to take a last walk through it together yesterday, but unfortunately she had a last minute unmissable meeting.
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
One last visit to see the gorgeous Hilma af Klint:What Stands Behind the Flowers@MoMA before it closes next week. It’s still about the searching roots & fragile petals for me. But these goat willows with their nearly translucent faces overlaid w pin-sized dabs of yellow! Just wow!
Detail of of watercolor painting of goat willows by Hilma af KlintDetail of watercolor painting of yellow star of Bethlehem by Hilma af KlintDetail of roots of watercolor painting of lily of the valley and water avens by Hilma af Klint
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
You might try Nineteenth-century Art Worldwide. www.19thc-artworldwide.org
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NCAW | Volume 24, Issue 2 | Summer 2025
Founded in 2002, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide is a scholarly, refereed e-journal devoted to the study of nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, graphic art
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Yes! Such an amazing show! For me, her representation of roots was especially revelatory. Each one so fragile yet so tough.
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Astonished as I look and look at every gorgeous watercolor in the Hilma af Klint show @MoMA. Just the right amount of pigment barely held by fragile graphite filaments and slivers of unfilled paper to represent intricately searching roots, gossamer petals, and slender stems.
Hilma af Klint “Violet Blossoms”Det. Hilma af Klint “Violet Blossoms”Hilma af Klint: Various roots, stems, and lily of the valley and water avens blossomsHilma af Klint det. Of Ferns”
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Spent Fri in the study room @artinstitutechi.bsky.social thinking about industrial smoke, Prussian blue, and extraction in Degas’ knockout Landscape with Smokestacks
Detail of Edgar Degas’ Landscape with Smokestacks
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Such a joy to see the magisterial “Gustave Caillebotte:Painting his World” exh @artinstitutechi.bsky.social on Sat with 2 beloved former grad students. The show is full of clever juxtapositions that inspire new thoughts. But I’ll never tire of the grids and veils that structure many of his works.
3 women in front of Gustave Caillebotte’s painting Le Pont de L’Europe. A detail of Gustave Caillebotte’s Boulevard Seen From Above.A detail of Gustave Caillebotte’s Le Pont de l’Europe.
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Congratulations, Anne (and to Cary, too)! It looks fantastic!
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Anne O’Neil-Henry @anneoneilhenry.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Check out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲 www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc
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Current Table of Contents | ncfs
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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
“Archives are not confined to buildings. They are places, streets, hillsides as much as card indexes.” Edmund de Waal, the writer and potter, gathers what’s scattered across time and terrain, new today in TYR. yalereview.org/article/edmu...
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Edmund de Waal: “The Ragpicker's Way”
The writer and potter on archives as places of memory, instability, and trespass—from porcelain shards to a derelict house in London.
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Oh, happiest of birthdays to you, John! And what a great picture of your lovely parents. The swirl of your mom’s skirt lifted by the breeze and your dad’s “pretty good line”-beautiful for you to think about on this day!
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
What a wonderful essay! Still thinking especially about “The rain, like rain, continues to fall” and that last line: “…those things so like the world but not the world”
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
How great! Congratulations, Hannah!
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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
JOB: Curator for Research, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas arthist.net/archive/49266
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Curator for Research, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
Celka Straughn. Bewerbungsschluss: 15.07.2025
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This is fantastic news, Maud! And what a fabulous cover! No doubt the words inside are equally amazing! Can’t wait to read them. 💕
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Chez Marianne for falafel.
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Glad I did!
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Thanks so much, @johnmkuhn.bsky.social! True, the Nelson-Atkins has real strengths in 19th-c French art. I bet you would notice some familiar works at most major museums. It means so much to know that what we studied in that class still reverberates for you!
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Oh, wow! Thank you for noticing and passing along this lovely compliment, @nancyum.bsky.social!
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Oh, this is such tragic and shocking news. My heart breaks for Julia’s family, close friends, and colleagues. I’ll always remember her as she was when we were in grad school—smart, outspoken, and thoughtful.
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Grateful to you for writing it!
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Moved by the Friedrich exhibition @ the Met. Delicately drawn clutches of leaves & blooms and spruce needles quieted by the softest snow. He understood deeply the aliveness of nature.
Drawing of leaves and flowers by FriedrichPainting by Friedrich of spruce trees in snow
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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The next NCFS Unbound is Friday 2/28! Anne O’Neil-Henry will interview Rebecca Powers about her new book, Balzac on the Barricades. Link below! #FrHistory 🗃️ southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 5 Episode 4: Rebecca Powers with Anne O'Neil Henry. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Rebecca Powers discusses her new book Balzac on the Barricades with Anne O'Neil Henry
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Looking forward to presenting “Aerial Intimacies: Edgar Degas’ Ironers, Coal Smoke, and Chemicals” tomorrow (Wed) @ 4:30pm @ CAA 113th Annual Conference
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Delighted to see that @francescaberry.bsky.social’s whip-smart new book on Vuillard is out!
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Same!
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
"...as we move into this grim season, we must think like [subarctic moss], survive like this, grow like this: like the hardy + unregarded things that make do with little + less. The things that cultivate the wasteland, and make it soft + green for those who need it; that bloom like rust on rock..."
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On Moss, Rock, Lichen, and Survival
“Moss. Roots” by Ivan Shishkin Lately, I’ve been looking at the life cycle of moss. I found myself instantly lost in a thicket of botanical terminology—from...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A fantastic web publication from RISD about French wallpaper design! risdmuseum.org/art-french-w...
Title page for a web resource on French wallpaper design, featuring the collection title set atop a triangular geometric pattern
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Labrys of Aëlla @aellalabrys.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Das Bild zeigt eine Winterlandschaft mit mehreren Bäumen, von denen einige kahl sind und andere noch wenige Äste haben. Im Bild sind zwei Personen zu sehen: ein Kind mit einer orangefarbenen Jacke und einem roten Ballon und ein Erwachsener in einer blauen Jacke und roten Stiefeln, der hinter einem Baum steht. Zudem läuft ein Fuchs im Schnee in der Nähe des Kindes. Schneeflocken fallen überall in der Szenerie.

In der Mitte des Bildes steht ein Zitat von Rilke:
"Und jetzt empfangen wir das neue Jahr, voll von Dingen, die noch nie gewesen sind."
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
What a wonderful way to start the new year! Can’t wait to see it in print!
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Berlin, Germany, 1930s, two girls playing the board game "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht" (still popular in the German-speaking world), sitting next to a Chanukiah (Menorah) lit for the the third night of Hanukkah. Published in the Jewish newspaper CV-Zeitung on November 29, 1934. #chanukah #hanukkah
A black and white photo of two two girls playing the board game at a table with a Chanukiah (Menorah) with four candles burning
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Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
A must read by the great @rmesch.bsky.social
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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
To celebrate women working in art history, Women’s History Today invites contributions to the topic of Women and the Making of Art History. Find out more here 👇 womenshistorynetwork.org/cfp-womens-h... #WomensHistory #GenderHist
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CFP Women’s History Today Special Issue – Women and the Making of Art History
Women and the Making of Art History Since the publication of Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ (1971), feminist art historians have led a revolutionary mo…
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