| BIO
Elizabeth Alice Honig was obsessed from an
early age by anything to do with her namesake, Elizabeth
I. An undergraduate career at Bryn Mawr, where she
served as Costumes Mistress to the annual Elizabethan
May Day celebrations, confirmed this inclination.
She worked at Hampton Court Palace and then went to
Yale. There, her secondary fascination with shopping
lead to a change in direction and she wrote her dissertation
on Flemish market scenes and the history of economic
thought. She lived in Amsterdam for many years, where
she could listen to English radio while studying the
art of Belgium. A brief period of museum work there
ended in complete disaster, and since then she has
been back in America teaching art history. In 1996
she abandoned the Atlantic seaboard and came to Berkeley,
where she began working on the art of Jan Brueghel,
son of the more famous Pieter. Through Brueghel she
has become interested in issues of copying, originality,
artistic collaboration, and historical techniques
of painting; narrative, scale, style, and the notion
of the Baroque. Her graduate students work on a diverse
range of topics in the arts of The Netherlands, Spain
and Germany; they study painting, prints, architecture
and urban planning; violence, propaganda, devotion,
and failure. They travel and publish a lot, and she
alternately encourages, bullies, and feeds them. Elizabeth
Honig's ultimate goal is to truly understand Rubens.
She also has pursued a major project in former Soviet
Central Asia.
 Areas
of Interest:
Dutch and Flemish painting, prints, architecture and
urban planning. Elizabethan painting and architecture.
Gender and representation in Europe, c.1450-1700.
History of collecting and the art market; the creation
of value in the arts. Amateur artists. Historical
painting techniques, studio practises, copying.
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SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
Painting and the Market in Early Modern
Antwerp. Yale University Press, 1998.
Gender
and Making. Co-editor of special issue of the Jaarboek
KMSK Antwerp, 2001
"Paradise Regained:
Rubens, Jan Brueghel, and the Sociability of Visual
Thought" forthcoming in Nederlands Kunsthistorisch
Jaarboek, 2005
"The Gentle Art of
Being Artistic" Womenís Art Journal
winter 2001
"Desire and Domestic Economy" Art Bulletin
LXXXIII/2 (June 2001), 294-315.
Exhibition review Still Life in the Netherlands,
1550-1725. (Amsterdam/Cleveland) The Burlington
Magazine (September 1999) 569-571.
"Making Sense of Things" RES. Anthropology
and Aesthetics. 34 (Fall 1998), 166-183.
"The Space of Gender in Seventeenth-Century
Dutch Painting" in Looking at Seventeenth-Century
Dutch Painting ed. Wayne Franits. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1997, 186-199.
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