Dr. Marnin Young
Dr. Marnin Young, associate professor and chair of art history at , has appeared recently in three publications.
In 鈥溾 published in RACAR (Spring 2021), Dr. Young explores the history and meaning of Canadian Impressionism through An African River, painted by Maurice Cullen in 1893. 鈥淚n its mixture of French Impressionist technique and French imperialist iconography, this 鈥楥anadian鈥 painting stands as a test case for the assumed synthesis of local and international in World Impressionism. The picture grapples with these wider spatial contradictions, this essay will argue, through a combination of two distinct, if interlocking, ways of conceptualizing space itself.鈥
Dr. Young also contributed 鈥溾 to A Companion to Impressionism (ed. Andr茅 Dombrowski). By presenting an expansive view of the study of Impressionism, 鈥渢his pioneering volume breaks new thematic ground while also reconsidering questions concerning the defini颅tion, chronology, and membership of the impressionist movement. In 34 original essays from established and emerging scholars, this collection offers a diverse range of developing topics and new critical approaches to the interpretation of impressionist art.鈥
Finally, 鈥溾 in Through Vincent鈥檚 Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources (ed. Eik Kahng) is part of a collection of work that provides 鈥渁 revelatory resituation of Van Gogh鈥檚 familiar works in the company of the surprising variety of nineteenth-century art and literature he most revered.鈥
Dr. Marnin Young
