The Department of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures


			Expanded Graduate Faculty, Assistant Professor
			Department of Art History
			Email: zervigon@rci.rutgers.edu





		Professor Zervigón received his doctorate in art history from Harvard University in 2000. He specializes in the history of photography and concentrates his scholarship on the interaction between photographs, film and traditional images. His work generally focuses upon moments in history when these media prove inadequate to their task of representing the visual. Zervigón is currently guest-curating an exhibition of the work of German photomontage artist John Heartfield at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, to open February 21, 2006. He is also completing a book on Heartfield that will cover the artist’s career in the years 1914-1929. His other projects include a history of Weimar-era German photography and the edited translation of Sergei Tret’iakov’s monograph John Heartfield. His essay “Postcards to the Front: John Heartfield, George Grosz and the Birth of Avant-Garde Photomontage,” will appear in the anthology Postcards: Ephemeral Histories of Modernity in early 2006 and his article “A Magnificent Distraction? The Drag Cult for Nazi-era Film Diva Zarah Leander,” was recently published in the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art, Volume 6, Number 1, 2005.


		Exhibitions:
		Agitated Images: John Heartfield and German Photomontage, 1920 – 1938.Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. February – May 2006.

		Recent Publications :
		“A Magnificent Distraction? The Drag Cult for Nazi-era Film Diva Zarah Leander,” Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art, Volume 6, Number 1, 2005.

		Articles:
		“The Weave of Memory. Siemon Allen’s Screen in Post-Apartheid South Africa,” Art Journal, pp. 68-81. Spring 2002 “Weimar Surfaces,” [book review] Art Journal, pp. 112-114 Winter 2002 “Anselm Kiefer,” [book review] Art Journal, pp. 103-106. Fall 1999 “Remaking Bacon,” [book review] Art Journal, pp. 87-93. Summer 1995

		Upcoming Publications :
		The Agitated Image: John Heartfield and German Photomontage, 1912 – 1929. “Postcards to the Front: John Heartfield, George Grosz and the Birth of Avant-Garde Photomontage.” Postcards: Ephemeral Histories of Modernity. Early 2006. Editor: John Heartfield. A Monograph and “Johnny.” Sergei Tret’iakov, 1936.

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