John J. Curley

John J. Curley is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art at Wake Forest University, where he teaches classes on modern and contemporary art history, as well as photographic history. He has published widely on American and European postwar art and photography. He is the author of A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War (Yale University Press, 2013). His second book, Global Art and the Cold War will appear in January 2019 (Laurence King). His new book project, Scenes from the End of Modernism, reconsiders American high modernism, from around 1955 to 1975. His research has been supported by the Getty Research Institute, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), the Henry Moore Foundation, among others.