Faculty Profile

Kurt Rahmlow

Kurt Rahmlow

Title
Principal Lecturer
Department
Art History
College
College of Visual Arts and Design

    

Education

PhD, University of Iowa, 2008.
Major: Art History
Dissertation Title: “Anterior Decorators: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Avant-Garde Environments at Arles and Le Pouldu"
MA, University of Iowa, 2003.
Major: Art History
Dissertation Title: Symbolic Places - Symbolist Place: Vincent Van Gogh and the Yellow House at Arles
MA, Northeastern University, 1996.
Major: English
BA, Southern Connecticut State University, 1990.
Major: English

Current Scheduled Teaching*

ART 2370.001, Art Hist Survey III, Spring 2024 Syllabus
ARTH 4812.001, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Spring 2024 Syllabus
ARTH 5801.003, Topics in Art History, Spring 2024

* Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching*

ART 2370.001, Art Hist Survey III, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4812.001, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4813.003, Postmodernism and the Visual Arts 1945 Present, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ART 2370.001, Art Hist Survey III, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4812.001, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4813.003, Postmodernism and the Visual Arts 1945 Present, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ART 2370.001, Art Hist Survey III, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4812.001, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4813.003, Postmodernism and the Visual Arts 1945 Present, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ART 2370.001, Art Hist Survey III, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4812.001, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4812.002, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ART 2370.020, Art Hist Survey III, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ART 2370.021, Art Hist Survey III, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4848.001, Art History Senior Seminar, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4812.001, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ART 2370.020, Art Hist Survey III, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ART 2370.021, Art Hist Survey III, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4812.001, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4812.002, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ART 5900.702, Special Problems, Spring 2021 Syllabus
ART 2370.020, Art Hist Survey III, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ART 2370.021, Art Hist Survey III, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ART 2370.026, Art Hist Survey III, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4812.001, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4801.005, Topics in Art History, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ART 2360.020, Art History Survey II, Summer 10W 2020 Syllabus
ART 2360.021, Art History Survey II, Summer 10W 2020 Syllabus
ART 2360.026, Art History Survey II, Summer 10W 2020
ART 2370.001, Art Hist Survey III, Spring 2020 Syllabus
AEAH 4812.001, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Spring 2020 Syllabus
AEAH 5811.001, Seminar in Nineteenth Century Art, Spring 2020 Syllabus
AEAH 4811.001, Topics in Nineteenth Century Art, Spring 2020 Syllabus
ART 2370.001, Art Hist Survey III, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4812.001, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4801.001, Topics in Art History, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ART 2360.001, Art History Survey II, Summer 5W1 2019 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4813.001, Postmodernism and the Visual Arts 1945 Present, Summer 5W1 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ART 1200.001, Art Appreciation, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4812.001, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 5811.001, Seminar in Nineteenth Century Art, Spring 2019 SPOT
ART 1200.001, Art Appreciation, Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4812.001, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4801.001, Topics in Art History, Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ART 2360.001, Art History Survey II, Summer 5W1 2018 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4813.001, Postmodernism and the Visual Arts 1945 Present, Summer 5W1 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ART 1200.001, Art Appreciation, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4812.005, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4811.001, Topics in Nineteenth Century Art, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ART 1200.001, Art Appreciation, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4812.001, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4801.001, Topics in Art History, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ART 2360.001, Art History Survey II, Summer 5W1 2017 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4813.001, Postmodernism and the Visual Arts 1945 Present, Summer 5W1 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ART 1200.001, Art Appreciation, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4813.001, Postmodernism and the Visual Arts 1945 Present, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4801.003, Topics in Art History, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ART 1200.001, Art Appreciation, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4812.002, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4801.001, Topics in Art History, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ART 2360.001, Art History Survey II, Summer 5W2 2016 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4813.001, Postmodernism and the Visual Arts 1945 Present, Summer 5W2 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ART 1200.001, Art Appreciation, Spring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4813.001, Postmodernism and the Visual Arts 1945 Present, Spring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4811.001, Topics in Nineteenth Century Art, Spring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ART 1200.001, Art Appreciation, Fall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4812.002, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Fall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4801.001, Topics in Art History, Fall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
ART 2360.001, Art History Survey II, Summer 5W1 2015 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4813.001, Postmodernism and the Visual Arts 1945 Present, Summer 5W1 2015 Syllabus SPOT
ART 4900.718, Special Problems, Summer 10W 2015
ART 1200.001, Art Appreciation, Spring 2015 Syllabus
AEAH 4813.001, Postmodernism and the Visual Arts 1945 Present, Spring 2015 Syllabus
AEAH 4801.001, Topics in Art History, Spring 2015 Syllabus
ART 1200.001, Art Appreciation, Fall 2014 Syllabus
AEAH 4812.001, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Fall 2014 Syllabus
AEAH 4801.001, Topics in Art History, Fall 2014 Syllabus
ART 2360.001, Art History Survey II, Summer 5W1 2014 Syllabus
AEAH 4813.001, Postmodernism and the Visual Arts 1945 Present, Summer 5W1 2014 Syllabus
ART 1200.001, Art Appreciation, Spring 2014 Syllabus
AEAH 4813.001, Postmodernism and the Visual Arts 1945 Present, Spring 2014 Syllabus
AEAH 4811.001, Topics in Nineteenth Century Art, Spring 2014 Syllabus
ART 1200.001, Art Appreciation, Fall 2013 Syllabus
AEAH 4812.001, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Fall 2013 Syllabus
AEAH 4801.003, Topics in Art History, Fall 2013 Syllabus
ART 2350.001, Art History Survey I, Summer 5W1 2013 Syllabus
AEAH 4813.001, Postmodernism and the Visual Arts 1945 Present, Summer 5W1 2013 Syllabus
ART 1200.001, Art Appreciation, Spring 2013 Syllabus
AEAH 4810.001, Nineteenth Century Art, Spring 2013 Syllabus
AEAH 4813.001, Postmodernism and the Visual Arts 1945 Present, Spring 2013 Syllabus
ART 1200.001, Art Appreciation, Fall 2012 Syllabus
AEAH 4843.001, History of Photography, Fall 2012 Syllabus
AEAH 4812.001, Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, Fall 2012 Syllabus
ART 5900.718, Special Problems, Fall 2012
AEAH 4813.001, Postmodernism and the Visual Arts 1945 Present, Summer 5W1 2012
ART 1300.001, Art Appreciation for non art majors, Spring 2012 Syllabus
AEAH 4810.001, Nineteenth Century Art, Spring 2012 Syllabus
AEAH 4801.003, Topics in Art History, Spring 2012 Syllabus
ART 1300.001, Art Appreciation for non art majors, Fall 2011 Syllabus
ART 1300.807, Art Appreciation for non art majors, Fall 2011 Syllabus
ART 1300.832, Art Appreciation for non art majors, Fall 2011 Syllabus
AEAH 4843.001, History of Photography, Fall 2011 Syllabus
AEAH 4801.003, Topics in Art History, Fall 2011 Syllabus

* Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Publications

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book Review
Rahmlow, K. E. (2021). Review of Allison Deutsch, Consuming Painting: Food and the Feminine in Impressionist Paris. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021.. 21(November), . H-France Review. https://h-france.net/vol21reviews/vol21no210Rahmlow.pdf
Rahmlow, K. E. (2011). Review of John Zarobell, Empire of Landscape: Space and Ideology in French Colonial Algeria, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. Other. 40(1 and 2), 153-55.
Conference Proceeding
Rahmlow, K. (2016). “A Commentary on ‘Narrating Military and War in Art and Literature of the Revolutionary Age’—An Art Historical Perspective”. The Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850: Selected Papers, 2013. Shreveport, LA: Louisiana State University-Shreveport.
Journal Article
Rahmlow, K. E. (2016). “‘The admiration one feels for something strange and uncanny’: Impressionism, Symbolism, and Edward Steichen’s Submissions to the 1905 London Photographic Salon”. Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. 15(1), n/a. Associated Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art. http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/index.php/spring16
Rahmlow, K. E. (2012). Co-opting the Co-operative: Vincent van Gogh's 'Studio of the South' and Nineteenth-Century Utopian Socialism. Utopian Studies. 23(1), 79-112.

Awarded Grants

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Fellowship
Rahmlow, K. E. (Principal), "Seashore Dissertation-Year Fellowship," Sponsored by Graduate College, University of Iowa, State, Funded. (20072008).
Rahmlow, K. E., "T. Anne Cleary International Travel Research Fellowship," Sponsored by Graduate College, University of Iowa, State, Funded. (20072007).
Rahmlow, K. E., "Bodine Fellowship," Sponsored by University of Iowa, Department of Art History, State, Funded. (20062007).
Rahmlow, K., "Longman Fellowship," Sponsored by University of Iowa, Department of Art History, State, Funded. (20062006).
Grant - Research
Rahmlow, K. E., "Student Government Scholarly Presentation and Research Grant," Sponsored by University of Iowa Student Government, State, Funded. (20072007).
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    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
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  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
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    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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