Art Faculty - Dennis Costanzo
Associate Professor
Dennis Costanzo has taught Art History at Plattsburgh State University since 1983; previously, he taught at Tulane University and Illinois State University. He received his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Michigan in 1981. His specialty is nineteenth-century French painting, and his principal area of research has been the imagery of Paris. He has published articles on depictions of urban and industrial scenes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, as well as other aspects of modern art. Dr. Costanzo teaches courses on modern and contemporary European and American art.
Education
- Ph.D. in Art History, University of Michigan
Teaching Areas
- 19th-century European art
- Modern and contemporary art
- American art
- Baroque art
Area of Specialization
- Later 19th-early 20th-century art
- 19th-century French painting
- Art and imagery of Paris
Recent Publications
- "Rockwell Kent and the Avant-Garde 1910-1917," The Kent Collector , Spring 2003
- "Premonitions of Catastrophe: German Artists and the Great War," The Spoils of War , NewYork: Peter Lang, 1997
- "Artists and Anarchism in Fin-de Siecle Paris," Fin de Siecle , New York: Peter Lang, 1996
- "Industrial Scenes" and "Urban Life," in The Dictionary of Art , London: Macmillan, 1996
Contact Dennis Costanzo
Office: Myers Fine Arts 213
Phone: (518) 564-2466
E-mail: costandp@plattsburgh.edu