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Current Member

Amy Knight Powell

Felix Gilbert Member; additional funding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Northern European Art, 1300–1700

Home Institution

University of Southern California
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