Jonah Siegel, Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University, is the author of Overlooking Damage: Art, Display, and Loss in Times of Crisis (Stanford University Press, 2022) and Material Inspirations: The Interests of the Art Object in the Nineteenth Century and After (Oxford University Press, 2020). Recent articles include “The Handover” in Los Angeles Review of Books, “Killmonger in the Museum: Fantasy, History, Restitution” in Raritan, and “Relationality, Agency, and Injury: The Darkness of The Radical Aesthetic in Genre. He is currently working on a book on the destruction of art objects in popular culture in relation to contemporary concepts of progress.
Jonah Siegel
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Style and Politics: On “The National Security Strategy of the United States of America”
The National Security Strategy of the United States of America may have its longest life as a particularly vivid example of the ways in which bad faith will always manifest in terrible prose.
In the Age of Artpocalypse: Beauty and Damage on TV
Whether destroying the Mona Lisa or whole museums, why does contemporary film and TV want us to watch the art world burn?
At the Wall
The title of Donna Tartt’s latest best-selling novel comes from a painting of a small bird by Carel Fabritius that hangs in the Mauritshuis in The Hague. A student of Rembrandt’s and an influence on Vermeer, Fabritius had his career cut short by a gunpowder explosion in 1654 that also destroyed almost all of his […]
