Ariel Kline specializes in modern art in Britain and the United States. Her work examines the relationship between art and the ideologies that subtend imperial power, attending in particular to how paintings mediate histories of global relations in the nineteenth century. Her book manuscript, Of Monsters and Mirrors: Art and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain, argues that paintings of monsters were, in fact, paintings of monstrous doubles. These doubles collapsed distinctions between the domestic and foreign, in turn revealing the British Empire's broader political and economic configurations. Victorian artists who painted monsters, then, pictured phenomena least amendable to picturing, and Of Monsters and Mirrors explores the consequences of these attempts.
Before joining the faculty in the Department of Art and Art History at Georgetown, she taught courses at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University. Her work has been published in British Art Studies and The Art Bulletin and has been supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art and the Clark Art Institute.
contact: ariel.kline@georgetown.edu
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Assistant Professor, College - Department of Art & Art History