Johanna Fassl

Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Communication
Academic Department: Art and Art History

Degrees:
Ph.D. Columbia University, USA
M.Phil. Columbia University, USA
M.A. Columbia University, USA
B.A. University of Toronto, Canada

Profile:
Johanna Fassl is Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Communication and department chair at Franklin College Switzerland, in addition to being the co-director of the Center for Sustainability Initiatives (CSI) at Franklin College Switzerland. She is also the director of Casa Muraro, Columbia University’s Study Center in Venice. She received her PhD (with distinction) from Columbia University and has since been the recipient of a Mellon Fellowship and Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship for her research. Her areas of specialization include the art and architecture of Venice; her book on Giambattista Tiepolo with Peter Lang was published in 2010. Current research projects include notions of visuality in Enlightenment art, science, and philosophy with respect to Newton’s discoveries of white light, space, and gravity.  She is also engaged in a study titled “Body Obsession: Stuffed Animals, Plastinated Bodies, and Other Observations on the Body in Contemporary Art and Culture,” and a comprehensive research project that concerns the visual culture of disasters, in particular investigating the art of young veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Publications:
Johanna, Fassl. 2012. "'La parola è d’argento, il silenzio è d’oro': la retorica del silenzio nelle pale d’altare di Giambattista Tiepolo,” Studi. Schriftenreihe des Deutschen Studienzentrums in Venedig. (in print)

Johanna, Fassl. 2012. “The Suspension of Gravity in Giandomenico Tiepolo’s Punchinello on a Swing,” in Gravity and Levity in Art, ed. M. Edwards and E. Bailey, McFarland Publishers. (in print)

Johanna, Fassl. 2012. “Retorica ed eloquenza nelle pale di Giambattista Tiepolo,” Università di Padua publication on the church of San Massimo e Osvaldo (in print)

Johanna, Fassl. 2012. "The Meaning of the Mark: Gianantonio Guardi’s Optical Investigations,” in Festschrift for David Rosand (Brepols Publishers) (in print)

Johanna, Fassl. 2011. "Punchinello Meets the Turk: Giambattista Tiepolo’s Oriental Spectators,” in J. Harper, ed., The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450-1750: Visual Imagery Before Orientalism, 95-125. Aldershot, 2011.

Johanna, Fassl. 2010. Sacred Eloquence: Giambattista Tiepolo and the Rhetoric of the Altarpiece. Peter Lang. Academic Publishers, Boston University Series of “Studies in Early Modern European Culture.” New York and Bern.

Johanna, Fassl. 2007. “In the Art of the Tiepolo a Single Gesture is Often Equivalent to a Long Sentence.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 40/4 (2007): 651-654.

Johanna, Fassl. 2004. "The Poetics of the Line: Giambattista Tiepolo’s Calligraphy Beyond Representation.” Save Venice Journal (2004): 46-49.

2004. Ph.D. Dissertation: “Sacred Eloquence: Giambattista Tiepolo and the Rhetoric of the Altarpiece.” Advisor: David Rosand, Columbia Unversity. UMI publication.

Johanna, Fassl. 2001. “Le figure degli 'Orientali' nell’Incoronazione di Spine di Giambattista Tiepolo.” Decimo Incontro in Ricordo di Michelangelo Muraro (Sossano, 2003): 9-31.

Contact information: jfassl@fc.edu