Full-Time Faculty

Valentin Nussbaum
Position
Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan
Normal University
Education
July 2005 Ph.D., University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
March 1999 M.A., University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
Professional Experience
Teaching
2005 - 2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and
Musicology, University of Fribourg
2007 - 2008 Lecturer, Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL)
2005 Lecturer, School of Design and Visual Art, Lausanne (ECAL)
1999 - 2005 Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Art
History and Musicology, University of Fribourg
Research Assistant
2008 Christie’s Paris: publication of the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre
Berge Collection’s Catalogue
2006 Department of Preservation of Historical Monuments / University
of Fribourg: Publication of the 850th Anniversary of the City of
Fribourg
1999-2005 Department of Art History and Musicology, Chair of Modern
and Contemporary Art History: research assistant to Professor Stoichita
Membership
2004-2008 Vice President of articulations (Swiss Association of Young
Scholars in Art History)
1999-2007 Member of the executive committee of the Kunsthalle /
Centre d’art contemporain FRI-ART, Fribourg (Switzerland)
Specialized Field
Western Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Cinema and Photography,
Portraiture and Identity (15th to 20th Centuries), Relationships between
Words and Images, Forensic Imagery, Art and Crime
Publications
Valentin Nussbaum, “As Seen on the Screen. The Artefact and the
Cinematic Gaze”, in: G. Ulrich Großmann, Petra Krutisch, and Almuth
Klein (eds.), The Challenge of the Object: Proceedings of the 33 rd
Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art, Congress
Proceedings Part. III, Nuremberg: Germanisches Nationalmuseum 2013,
vol. 3, pp. 803-807
Valentin Nussbaum, “Ghost Images in Brian de Palma’s Obsession,” in:
Journal of Taipei Fine Arts Museum, No. 23, 2012, pp. 79-100
Valentin Nussbaum, “Classic = Modern. Godard’s Bande à part,
McTiernan’s The Thomas Crown Affair and the Question of Cinematic
Modernity,” in : Shida Studies in Art History, vol.1, 2011 (forthcoming)
Valentin Nussbaum, “Le maître dérobé: chroniques de l'appropriation
dans les arts visuels,” in: Christian Belin, Guy Bedouelle and Simone de
Reyff (eds.), La Tradition du savoir, Fribourg: Academic Press
Fribourg, 2011, pp. 345-371.
Valentin Nussbaum, “Valérie Favre,” in: SIKART Lexikon und
Datenbank / Dictionnaire et base de données, Zürich and Lausanne:
Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft (SIK-ISEA), 2011.
Valentin Nussbaum, “James Ensor. Le Désespoir de Pierrot ou Pierrot
jaloux, cat. n° 17 ,” in: Christie’s (ed.),Collection Yves Saint Laurent
Pierre Bergé. Art impressionniste et moderne, Christie’s, 2009, pp.
68-74 & pp. 230-231.
Valentin Nussbaum, “Pablo Picasso. Poulet, verre, couteau et bouteille
cat. n° 32,” in: Christie’s (ed.),Collection Yves Saint Laurent Pierre
Bergé. Art impressionniste et moderne, Christie’s, 2009, pp. 108-111 &
p. 32.
Valentin Nussbaum, “Alexander Calder. Dancers and Sphere, cat.
n°41,” in: Christie’s (ed.), Collection Yves Saint Laurent Pierre Bergé.
Art impressionniste et moderne, Christie’s, 2009, pp. 148-151 & pp.
244-245.
Valentin Nussbaum, “Fernand Léger. Ballet mécanique, cat. n° 49,” in:
Christie’s (ed.), Collection Yves Saint Laurent Pierre Bergé. Art
impressionniste et moderne, Christie’s, 2009, p. 173 & p. 252.
Valentin Nussbaum, “Giorgio de Chirico. Il Ritornante, cat. n°57,” in:
Christie’s (ed.), Collection Yves Saint Laurent Pierre Bergé. Art
impressionniste et moderne, Christie’s, 2009, pp. 204-207 & pp.
261-262.
Valentin Nussbaum, “Paul Klee. Sollte steigen, cat. n°58,” in: Christie’s
(ed.), Collection Yves Saint Laurent Pierre Bergé. Art impressionniste et
moderne, Christie’s, 2009, pp. 210-211 & p. 263.
Valentin Nussbaum, “Paul Klee. Gartenfigur, cat. n°61,” in: Christie’s
(ed.), Collection Yves Saint Laurent Pierre Bergé. Art impressionniste et
moderne, Christie’s, 2009, pp. 214-215 & p. 264.
Valentin Nussbaum, “Serial Künstler. Portrait of the Artist as a
Malefactor,” in:
Charlotte Schoell-Glass and Catriona McLeod
(eds.), Elective Affinities, Testing Word & Image Relationships. Word &
Image Interactions 6, Amsterdam and Atlanta : Rodopi, 2009, pp.
205-219
Valentin Nussbaum, “Wim et la sacrée reliquerie. Enfance de l’art et
reliques du sacré dans l’oeuvre de Delvoye,” in: Kritische Berichte, Vol.
36, No. 3, 2008, pp. 83-92.
Valentin Nussbaum, “Places, parcs et jardins publics,” in: Francis
Python (ed.), Fribourg une ville aux XIXe et XXe siècles / Freiburg eine
Stadt im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Fribourg : Editions de la Sarine, 2007,
pp. 277-294.
Valentin Nussbaum, “L’aura de Laura. L’écho du portrait idéal au
cinéma,” in: Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Jean-Michel Spieser, Jean
Wirth (eds.), Le portrait. La représentation de l’individu, Micrologus’
Library, Vol. 17, 2007, pp. 183-204.
Valentin Nussbaum, “Der imaginäre Mord,” in: Christina Bacher
(ed.), Art in Crime. Kalender für Kriminalliteratur 2007, Münster:
Daedalus Verlag, 2006, pp. 30-36.
Valentin Nussbaum, “A l’ombre de portraits en fleurs. Symbolisme et
troubles de l’identité de Whistler à Hitchcock,” in: Claus Clüver,
Véronique Plesch, Leo H. Hoek (eds.), Orientations. Space Time / Image
/ Word. Word & Image Interactions 5, Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi,
2005, pp. 37-50.
Valentin Nussbaum, “Giovanni Lanfranco, Ritratto della famiglia del
pittore (cat. n°42),” in: Omar Calabrese, Claudio Strinati (eds.), Persone
Ritratti di gruppo da Van Dyck a de Chirico, Milano: Silvana Editoriale,
2003, (ill. p. 120), p. 175.
Valentin Nussbaum, “David Teniers il Giovane, L’artista e la sua
famiglia (cat. n°44),” in: Omar Calabrese, Claudio Strinati
(eds.), Persone Ritratti di gruppo da Van Dyck a de Chirico, Milano:
Silvana Editoriale, 2003, (ill. p. 122), p. 176.
Valentin Nussbaum, “Antonio Domenico Gabbiani, Trio di musici del
Gran Principe Ferdinando con servitore nero (cat. n°46),” in: Omar
Calabrese, Claudio Strinati (eds.), Persone Ritratti di gruppo da Van
Dyck a de Chirico, Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 2003, (ill. p. 124), p. 177.
Valentin Nussbaum, “Jacques Autreau, I bevitori di vino (cat. n°48),” in:
Omar Calabrese, Claudio Strinati (eds.),Persone Ritratti di gruppo da
Van Dyck a de Chirico, Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 2003, (ill. p. 126), p.
177.
Valentin Nussbaum, “Francesco Hayez, Autoritrato con gruppo di amici
(cat. n°49),” in: Omar Calabrese, Claudio Strinati (eds.), Persone Ritratti
di gruppo da Van Dyck a de Chirico, Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 2003,
(ill. p. 127), p. 178.
Valentin Nussbaum, “Jean Béraud, La Madeleine chez le Pharisien (cat.
n°50),” in: Omar Calabrese, Claudio Strinati (eds.), Persone Ritratti di
gruppo da Van Dyck a de Chirico, Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 2003, (ill.
p.128), p. 178.
Valentin Nussbaum, “David Davidovic Burljuk, Ritratto di Christian
Brinton e di nove amici artisti (cat. n°52),”in: Omar Calabrese, Claudio
Strinati (eds.), Persone Ritratti di gruppo da Van Dyck a de
Chirico, Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 2003, p. 179.
Valentin Nussbaum, “Naming the Subject. Time and Identification in
Portraiture,” in: Antoinette Roesler-Friedenthal, Johannes Nathan
(eds.), The Enduring Instant. Time and the Spectator in the Visual Arts /
Der bleibende Augenblick. Betrachterzeit in den Bildkünsten, Berlin:
Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2003, pp. 270-283.
Valentin Nussbaum, “Valdès Leal : les Hiéroglyphes des Fins Dernières
de l'église de la Santa Caridad à Séville,” in: Revue roumaine d'histoire
de l'art (Série Beaux-Arts), Vol. 33, 1996 (1999), pp. 49-66.
Conferences
Speech
Valentin Nussbaum, “Cinematic! How Movies have changed the Vision
of Art”, Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology,
Kaohsiung, June 3, 2011
Valentin Nussbaum, “Renaissance de façade. Treacherous Survival in
Brian de Palma’s Obsession”, Eurotrash? Modern Simulacra of
Renaissance Art, March 18, 2011, Zurich (International Conference
organized by Dartmouth College and the University of Zurich)
Valentin Nussbaum, “L’art c’est le vol. L’originalité au défi de
l’appropriation”, 1st Swiss Conference in Art History, September 2-4,
2010, Bern, (Conference organized by the Swiss Association of Art
Historians (VKKS / ASHHA) and the University of Bern)
Valentin Nussbaum, “Classic = Modern. Questioning Cinematic
Modernity”, International Conference Agent of Modernity, March 27,
2010, Taipei (Conference organized by GIAH, National Taiwan Normal
University)
Valentin Nussbaum, “Holy Business. Art and Transit of Value”,
Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung,
March 18, 2010
Valentin Nussbaum, “Cinema Connection. Reflections on Art History,
Museums and Movies”, Taiwan Art Historian Forum, November 27,
2009, Taipei (Conference organized by GIAH, National Taiwan Normal
University, Taipei)
Valentin Nussbaum, “Le maître dérobé. Chroniques de l’appropriation
dans le milieu artistique”, International Conference La tradition du
savoir: le maître et le disciple (ou l’élève), University of Fribourg, April
19, 2008
Valentin Nussbaum, “Wim et la sacrée reliquerie. Réflexions sur le sacré
dans l’oeuvre de Wim Delvoye”, Conference Reste, University of Bern,
December 7, 2007
Valentin Nussbaum, “Modus operandi. Eléments d’enquête sur la
poétique
indicielle
contemporaine”, Conference
The
Making
Of…Gesture and Signature in the Art after 1950, University of Bern,
February 11, 2006
Valentin Nussbaum, “Le titre à l’oeuvre”, Conference History of Titles,
University of Fribourg, January 9, 2006
Valentin Nussbaum, Serial Künstler. Portrait of the Rtist as a
Malefactor”,
7th International
IAWIS Word
& Image Conference,
Philadelphia, Session: Artist and the Art World in Fiction, Penn
University, Philadelphia, September 27, 2005
Valentin Nussbaum, “Identité / altérité: quand l’un (ou l’une) est
l’autre”, Exhibition Double Consciousness, Kunsthalle / Centre d’art
contemporain, FRI-ART, Fribourg, May 23, 2005
Valentin Nussbaum, “A Likeness of Artistic Identity: Fra Filippo Lippi
and Vasari’s Lives”, Annual Conference Meeting of the Renaissance
Society of America, Session: - Socializing the Individual: Aspects of
Renaissance Portraiture, Cambridge (UK), April 9, 2005
Valentin Nussbaum, “L’aura de Laura. Les paradoxes du portrait au
cinéma”, Conference 3ème cycle romand de Lettres: Le portrait: la
représentation de l’individu, University of Geneva, December 3, 2004
Valentin Nussbaum, “Serial Künstler. Portrait de l’artiste en malfaiteur”,
Interdisciplinary Conference Art & Crime, University of Fribourg,
September 25, 2004
Valentin Nussbaum, “A fleur d’identité: le portrait refiguré chez
Whistler et consorts”, 7th Swiss Young Scholars in Art History
Conference, University of Neuchâtel, November 8, 2003
Valentin Nussbaum, “A l’ombre des portraits en fleurs. Fin de siècle et
trouble
de
l’identité”,
6th International
IAWIS Word
&
Image Conference, Session: - Word and Image in History and
Historiography: Perspectives, University of Hamburg, July 22, 2002
Valentin Nussbaum, “Autant en importe le nom, autant en emporte le
temps: l’intitulation du portrait”, 30thCIHA Conference, Session: Look,
See, Behold: The Spectator’s Time, London, September 7, 2000
Valentin Nussbaum, “Tableau, que me veux-tu?”, 3rd Swiss Young
Scholars in Art History Conference, University of Zurich, May 8, 1999
Conference organization
2008 Organization of the 12th conference of the Swiss Young Art
Historians University of Fribourg (October 17-18, 2008)
2004 Organization of the interdisciplinary conference Art & Crime,
University of Fribourg, (September 25, 2004)
2001 Organization of the 5th conference of the Swiss Young Art
Historians, University of Fribourg, (May 11-12, 2001)
Research Projects
Corpus Delicti. Cinematographic Imagery and Forensic Unconscious
NTNU Project: No. 98091047 (1 January 2010 – 31 March 2011)
The Forensic Gaze. Cinematographic Close-Up and Evidentiary
Paradigm NSC Project: No. NSC99-2410-H003-153 (99B0579) (1
September 2010 – 31 December 2011)
Detection at Work. Cinematic Representations of Forensic Quests NSC
(National Science Council, Taiwan) Project: No. NSC
101-2410-H-003-060 (100WFA0300440) (1 August 2012 – 31
December 2013)
Awards, Honors, and Grants
2005 Senior Prize of the Richterich Foundation and the Swiss
Association of Art Historians (VKKS / ASHHA)
2000 Prize of the Faculty of Arts (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
for the MA Thesis