Incoming Member
Amy Knight Powell
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Northern European Art, 1300–1700
Website
Amy Knight Powell is an art historian of early modern northern Europe. She is interested in the affordances and disaffordances of artistic media, particularly painting. At IAS, she will be working on a long history of the easel painting’s ambivalent relationship to its own boxlike constraints.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
–
Degrees
Harvard University
Ph.D.
2004
University of California, Berkeley
B.A.
1996
Appointments
University of Southern California
2019
Associate Professor of Art History
University of California, Irvine
2008–2019
Assistant/Associate Professor