Susan Dackerman
Profile
Susan Dackerman specializes in Early Modern Northern European art, with a focus on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century print culture. Her research investigates how printed images produce meaning and knowledge, especially in relationship to their materiality, manufacture, and physical presence. She currently is working on an ecological history of print matrices—woodblocks, copperplates, and lithographic limestones; questioning how the choice of their use was shaped by environmental conditions, as well as how the use of metal, wood, and stone was informed by contemporary conceptions of the natural world.
Dackerman has held posts at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums, Getty Research Institute, and Stanford University.
Education
Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College
Selected Publications
Dürer’s Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East, Princeton University Press, 2024
Jasper Johns: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Monotypes, with Jennifer Roberts, New York: Matthew Marks Gallery and Yale University Press, 2018
Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, Harvard Art Museums, Susan Dackerman, ed., Cambridge: Harvard Art Museums with Yale University Press, 2015
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Harvard Art Museums, Susan Dackerman, ed., Cambridge: Harvard Art Museums with Yale University Press, 2011
Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance and Baroque Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts, Susan Dackerman, ed., University Park: The Baltimore Museum of Art and Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002