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Juliet Bellow Associate Professor CAS | Art

Degrees
PhD, Art History, University of Pennsylvania
MA, Art History, University of Pennsylvania
BA, Art History, Columbia University

Languages Spoken
French
Bio
Juliet Bellow’s research centers on visual artists' experimentations with intermediality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her book Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-Garde, published in 2013 by Ashgate Press, analyzes set and costume designs by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Sonia Delaunay and Giorgio de Chirico for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes troupe. She also served as Consulting Scholar for the 2013 exhibition "Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes: When Art Danced With Music." She has published in the Art Bulletin, Art Journal, American Art, and Modernism/modernity, as well as exhibition catalogues on Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, Sonia Delaunay, and Merce Cunningham.

In 2025, Dr. Bellow published Rodin's Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris with Yale University Press. This book charts Auguste Rodin’s relationships with the dancers who shaped his signature style and his mythic persona, including Loïe Fuller, Vaslav Nijinsky, and the members of the Cambodian Royal Ballet troupe. Providing more than a new interpretation of Rodin’s art, it considers how and why the name “Rodin” came to stand for a powerful constellation of ideas about art, authorship, and creative genius within the vibrant spectacle culture of Belle Époque Paris. This publication was supported by fellowships at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University and the Institut national d'histoire de l'art and a grant from the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art.

Dr. Bellow teaches courses on a range of thematic issues and materials relating to European art of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, including "Art and Dance, 1860-1960," "Women and the Avant-Garde," "Revolutionary Aesthetics: Art and Politics in Nineteenth-Century France," and "Museums and Society."
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AU Art History
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Teaching

Fall 2025

  • ARTH-411 European Art: Rococo-Realism

  • ARTH-600 Approaches to Art History

  • CORE-102 Encounter AU