Maria Makela

Maria Makela is Professor Emerita of the California College of the Arts, USA. She holds a PhD in art history from Stanford University. Makela has published widely in exhibition catalogues, edited anthologies, and periodicals on topics as diverse as fashion, rayon, New Objectivity, Dada, Expressionism, film, nationalism, sexology, and typology. Much of her research has focused on gender and sexuality in visual culture. She is the author of The Munich Secession: Art and Artists in Turn-of-the...See more

Maria Makela is Professor Emerita of the California College of the Arts, USA. She holds a PhD in art history from Stanford University. Makela has published widely in exhibition catalogues, edited anthologies, and periodicals on topics as diverse as fashion, rayon, New Objectivity, Dada, Expressionism, film, nationalism, sexology, and typology. Much of her research has focused on gender and sexuality in visual culture. She is the author of The Munich Secession: Art and Artists in Turn-of-the-Century Munich (1990) and co-editor of Of Truths Impossible to Put in Words: Max Beckmann Contextualized (2009). In 1996 she co-curated a traveling retrospective of the work of Hannah Höch and co-authored the accompanying catalog, The Photomontages of Hannah Höch . Makela serves on the editorial board of German Quarterly and on the advisory board of the Visual Cultures and German Contexts book series, which publishes under the Bloomsbury Visual Arts imprint. See less