{{short description|American art historian}} {{Infobox academic | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1947|09|16}} | title = Katherine and Keith L. Sachs Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania | education = {{Plainlist|*University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A., M.A.) *Brown University (PhD)}} | website = {{URL|http://www.kajasilverman.com}} }} '''Kaja Silverman''' (born September 16, 1947)<ref>Birthdate is sourced through Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF).</ref> is an American art historian and critical theorist. She is currently the Katherine and Keith L. Sachs Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania.
She received B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in English from Brown University.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sas.upenn.edu/arthistory/people/kaja-silverman|title=Kaja Silverman {{!}} Penn History of Art|website=www.sas.upenn.edu|access-date=2019-03-27|publisher=University of Pennsylvania}}</ref> Thereafter, she taught at Yale University, Trinity College, Simon Fraser University, Brown University, the University of Rochester and for many years was the Class of 1940 Professor in the Rhetoric Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/13556-kaja-silverman|title=Kaja Silverman|publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604003344/http://www.gf.org/fellows/13556-kaja-silverman|archivedate=2011-06-04}}</ref> in 2008, and is currently the holder of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.upenn.edu/news/penn-history-art-professor-kaja-silverman-receives-mellon-foundation-distinguished-achievement-|title=UPenn Press Release|date=25 April 2011 }}</ref>
==Work== Her writing and teaching at the moment are focused primarily on photography, contemporary art, and painting.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sas.upenn.edu/arthistory/people/profile/kaja-silverman|title=Kaja Silverman Penn faculty webpage}}</ref> She is currently writing the second volume, ''A Three-Personed Picture: or the History of Photography Part 2,'' of a three part revisionary history and theory of photography. The first volume, ''Miracle of Analogy,'' was published in 2015.
Silverman has written extensively on a wide range of figures including artists: Jean-Luc Godard, Gerhard Richter, Marcel Proust, Ranier Maria Rilke, Terrence Malick, James Coleman, Jeff Wall, Chantal Akerman, John Dugdale (photographer), and thinkers: Jacques Lacan, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Lou Andreas-Salomé.
Silverman co-wrote ''Speaking About Godard'' with the German artist and filmmaker Harun Farocki.
==Publications== *''The Subject of Semiotics'' (Oxford University Press, 1983) *''The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema'' (Indiana University Press, 1988) *''Male Subjectivity at the Margins'' (Routledge Press, 1992) *''The Threshold of the Visible World'' (Routledge Press, 1996) *''Speaking About Godard'' (New York University Press, 1998; with Harun Farocki) * {{Cite book|title=World Spectators|publisher=Stanford University Press|year=2000|url=http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=622|archive-date=2010-07-18|access-date=2020-02-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100718135713/http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=622|url-status=bot: unknown}} *''James Coleman'' (Munich: Hatje Cantz, 2002; ed. Susanne Gaensheimer) * {{Cite book|title=Flesh of My Flesh|publisher=Stanford University Press|year=2009|url=http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=17260}} * {{Cite book|title=The Miracle of Analogy: or The History of Photography, Part 1|publisher=Stanford University Press|year=2015|url=http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25116}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pinson |first=Stephen C. |date=2015-11-01 |title=Kaja Silverman’s Miracle of Analogy |url=https://www.artforum.com/columns/kaja-silvermans-miracle-of-analogy-226150/ |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-05-14 |title=Medium retains its mystique |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2015/05/15/medium-retains-its-mystique |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=The Art Newspaper - International art news and events |language=en}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}
==External links== *{{YouTube|XLsQeSL39iM|Kaja Silverman lecture on Gerhard Richter}} *[https://archive.org/details/KajaSilvermanAtcLectureAtUcBerkeley "The Twilight of Posterity." Kaja Silverman Lecture at UC Berkeley.] *[http://atc.berkeley.edu/lectures/audio.htm Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium audio from 'Lectures with Lindsay'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111180901/http://atc.berkeley.edu/lectures/audio.htm |date=2015-01-11 }} * [http://www.kajasilverman.com Website]
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