Allan, Kenneth
Faculty
- Phone
- (403) 394-3923
- kenneth.allan@uleth.ca
About Me
Courses Taught Currently or Previously:
ARHI 1000 - Introduction to Art (Neoclassicism to Present)
ARHI 2001 - Contemporary Art Practices and Theories
ARHI 3151 - A History of Photography (Series)
ARHI 3215 - 20th-Century Art to 1945
ARHI 3220 - Art: 1945 to 1980
ARHI 3270 - Global Art Since 1980
ARHI 4150 - Experimental Film (Series)
ARHI 1000 - Introduction to Art (Neoclassicism to Present)
ARHI 2001 - Contemporary Art Practices and Theories
ARHI 3151 - A History of Photography (Series)
ARHI 3215 - 20th-Century Art to 1945
ARHI 3220 - Art: 1945 to 1980
ARHI 3270 - Global Art Since 1980
ARHI 4150 - Experimental Film (Series)
Biography
Ph.D. - University of Toronto ("Conceptual Art Magazine Projects and Their Precedents." PhD Dissertation, 2004)
MA. - York University
BA. - University of Guelph
AOCA. - Ontario College of Art
Kenneth R. Allan is Associate Professor of Art History, teaching courses on the histories of 20th- and 21st-century art, global contemporary art, photography, and theory.
MA. - York University
BA. - University of Guelph
AOCA. - Ontario College of Art
Kenneth R. Allan is Associate Professor of Art History, teaching courses on the histories of 20th- and 21st-century art, global contemporary art, photography, and theory.
Publications
Articles and Book Chapters
"Marshall McLuhan's Counterenvironment within the Stream of Defamiliarization." Imaginations 8, no. 3 (December 2017) http://imaginations.glendon.yorku.ca/?p=10192
"Marshall McLuhan and the Counterenvironment: 'The Medium is the Massage.'" Art Journal 73, No. 4 (Winter 2014): 22-45.
"Barnett Newman's The Wild: Painting as Spatial Intervention." October 143 (Winter 2013): 71-94.
"Metamorphosis in 391: A Cryptographic Collaboration by Francis Picabia, Man Ray, and Erik Satie." Art History 34, No. 1 (February 2011): 102-125.
"Grounds of Forgetting and Intermediaries for Memory: Some Photographs by David M.C. Miller." Public 42 (Fall 2010): 82-92.
"Understanding Information." Conceptual Art: Theory, Myth, and Practice. Ed. Michael Corris (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 144-68.
"The A-poetic Poetry of Bernar Venet." Public 26 (Fall 2002): 179-185.
"Business Interests, 1969-72: N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., Les Levine, Bernar Venet, and John Latham." Parachute 106 (April-June 2002): 106-122.
Reviews and Interviews
Book review of Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS, ed. Dawn Ades and Simon Baker, for the Canadian Journal of History 42, no. 2 (Autumn 2007): 325-27.
"Bernar Venet: An Interview with Ken Allan," in Bernar Venet Writings, 1975-2002. Art: The Matter of Context, trans. Gayle Wurst (Lenox, MA: Hard Press, 2004). 33-54.
Book review of Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology, ed. Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson, for Parachute 99 (July-Sept., 2000): 61-62.
Book review of Noël Carroll's A Philosophy of Mass Art, for Parachute 96 (Oct.-Dec., 1999): 91.
Review of Internet projects by Alfredo Jaar and Tim McLaughlin for Parachute 93 (Jan.-March, 1999): 52-53.
"Marshall McLuhan's Counterenvironment within the Stream of Defamiliarization." Imaginations 8, no. 3 (December 2017) http://imaginations.glendon.yorku.ca/?p=10192
"Marshall McLuhan and the Counterenvironment: 'The Medium is the Massage.'" Art Journal 73, No. 4 (Winter 2014): 22-45.
"Barnett Newman's The Wild: Painting as Spatial Intervention." October 143 (Winter 2013): 71-94.
"Metamorphosis in 391: A Cryptographic Collaboration by Francis Picabia, Man Ray, and Erik Satie." Art History 34, No. 1 (February 2011): 102-125.
"Grounds of Forgetting and Intermediaries for Memory: Some Photographs by David M.C. Miller." Public 42 (Fall 2010): 82-92.
"Understanding Information." Conceptual Art: Theory, Myth, and Practice. Ed. Michael Corris (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 144-68.
"The A-poetic Poetry of Bernar Venet." Public 26 (Fall 2002): 179-185.
"Business Interests, 1969-72: N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., Les Levine, Bernar Venet, and John Latham." Parachute 106 (April-June 2002): 106-122.
Reviews and Interviews
Book review of Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS, ed. Dawn Ades and Simon Baker, for the Canadian Journal of History 42, no. 2 (Autumn 2007): 325-27.
"Bernar Venet: An Interview with Ken Allan," in Bernar Venet Writings, 1975-2002. Art: The Matter of Context, trans. Gayle Wurst (Lenox, MA: Hard Press, 2004). 33-54.
Book review of Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology, ed. Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson, for Parachute 99 (July-Sept., 2000): 61-62.
Book review of Noël Carroll's A Philosophy of Mass Art, for Parachute 96 (Oct.-Dec., 1999): 91.
Review of Internet projects by Alfredo Jaar and Tim McLaughlin for Parachute 93 (Jan.-March, 1999): 52-53.
Research Interests
Conceptual art, Russian avant-garde, Dada, Surrealism, abstract painting, Marshall McLuhan, and the history of defamiliarization. My current research project concerns the work of Russian Suprematist painter Kazimir Malevich.