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Teaching and Research Profile
Since earning his PhD in art history from the University of California at Berkeley, Marcus has taught at universities in both the States (U.C.Berkeley, Reed College) and Britain (Manchester University). Initially specialising in French art of the nineteenth century, he concentrated on the response of the avant-garde to the rise of mass culture, publishing articles on the topic in academic journals and anthologies.
Though he still occasionally writes on the nineteenth century, the focus of his work has shifted to the present. Now freelance, he has over the past few years published over fifty essays and reviews in magazines such as Art Monthly, Modern Painters, frieze and Art Review. He has also worked as a tutor at a number of institutions, such as Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University, teaching courses on art history and cultural theory. He regularly writes essays for exhibition catalogues and gives talks on contemporary art at galleries and museums, both in the UK and abroad.
His research currently revolves around globalisation and its effects on contemporary art; he has recently published articles on the rise of the biennial, the nomadism of the artist and the global city as it appears in the art of the present. He is also interested in the afterlife of modernist utopianism, in notions of time and duration in contemporary art, and in art that concerns itself with gratuity and failure.
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