Associate Professor of Art History
Kim Smith's primary field of interest is modern art, including European and American art from the 19th and 20th centuries, and she maintains expertise in the art of Central Europe, including Germany and Austria, from the first decades of the 20th century.
Her dissertation, written at Yale University, studied the Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele, and analyzed the ways in which these images reveal both nihilistic and utopian aspects of Viennese culture before and during World War I.
Unlike other disciplines in the humanities that are primarily text-based, the history of art concerns itself with the history of image-making. Smith Smith's aims to teach visual literacy, and to provide her students with the methodological and analytical skills necessary to understand and examine works of art.
• PhD,
Yale University
• MPhil, Yale University
• BA, Duke University
• tel 512 863 1349
• email smithk@southwestern.edu