Professor Elaine O’Brien in Uxmal on Ancient Cities Tour of Mexico, summer 2008

Office: KDM 190
Office hours: Posted on instructor’s office door. Please use appointment sheet on office door to schedule an appointment during office hours.
Phone:(916) 278-5704
Email: eobrien@csus.edu

All of the material in the course's notebook can be accessed by computer at: http://eureka.lib.csus.edu/screens/reserve.html

Website: http://www.csus.edu/indiv/o/obriene/

Elaine O’Brien is a professor of modern and contemporary art history and criticism. She received her doctorate from the City University of New York with a dissertation on the New York intellectual and art critic, Harold Rosenberg. She is currently editing a modern art textbook and writing a critical biography of Harold Rosenberg. She lectures nationally and internationally on subjects in her area of expertise.

Before coming to CSUS in 1998 O’Brien taught at several CUNY campuses and at The School of Visual Arts in New York. At CSUS she offers lecture and seminar courses in art appreciation, exhibition theory and practice, art theory and criticism, and the history of the art and visual culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with a focus on the Americas and contemporary global art.