research overview
- Dr. Alhadeff's research focuses on the opening and closing decades of the 19th century in France and Belgium. Presently, Alhadeff has completed a manuscript on Theodore Gericault's paintings of Blacks and the enslaved, a study whose focus is on the 1820s and the politics surrounding slavery and abolitionism. The book, 'Painting Black Bodies, Confrontations and Contradictions,' is in print with Routledge's series on Art and Race; it is available as a paper back and in hard cover. Alhadeff is presently working on a new book, on symbolism in Belgium and the fin de siècle, specifically on the sculptor George Minne and the Belgian poets in his circle; he envisions eight chapters, with four presently complete. Submitted four articles for publication this past year, two for the ART BULLETIN, one for OUD HOLLAND and another for 19th CENTURY STUDIES WORLD WIDE. An ongoing interest by Alhadeff is theoretical questions affecting early modernist studies--research that strongly affects his classes on 19th and 20th century issues. Alhadeff's focus on European painting challenges his readiness to keep up with the ever expanding bibliography in the field--a fruitful task that extends as well to the High Renaissance and Michelangelo's oeuvre.
