Marnin
Young
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Yeshiva College; Associate Professor of Art History, Stern College for Women
Wilf: Belfer #522
Beren: 215 Lexington, #708
Yeshiva College
2495 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10033
Stern College for Women
245 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10016
Dr. Young's research revolves around the new circumstances of artistic exhibition in late nineteenth-century France. He is especially interested in the history of art criticism, the formation of the avant-garde, and the theory of artistic autonomy. Recent publications include essays on Nineteenth-Century French Realism, Impressionism, and Vincent van Gogh. A book on Georges Seurat is forthcoming.
For his teaching at Stern College for Women, Dr. Young was selected as the Lillian F. and William L. Silber Professor of the Year (2011) and the General Studies Professor of the Year by the Senior Classes of 2011, 2012, and 2015. He also received the Dean Karen Bacon Faculty Award in 2014.
Books:
Realism in the Age of Impressionism: Painting and the Politics of Time (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015).
Book Chapters:
鈥淭he Double Spectacle of Seurat鈥檚 Chahut,鈥 in Radical Harmony: Helene Kr枚ller-M眉ller鈥檚 Neo-Impressionists, ed. Julien Domercq, exh. cat. (London: The National Gallery, 2025), 174鈥191.
鈥溾楿nity is Strength鈥: Van Gogh and the Exhibitions of the Avant-Garde,鈥 in Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers, ed. Cornelia Homburg, exh. cat. (London: The National Gallery, 2024), 113鈥128.
鈥淰an Gogh鈥檚 Realism,鈥 in Through Vincent鈥檚 Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources, ed. Eik Kahng, exh. cat. (Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press 2022), 93鈥121.
鈥淚mpressionism and Criticism,鈥 in A Companion to Impressionism, ed. Andr茅 Dombrowski (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), 11鈥26.
鈥淔茅n茅on鈥檚 Art Criticism,鈥 in F茅lix F茅n茅on: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde, ed. Starr Figura, Isabelle Cahn, and Philippe Peltier, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2020), 32鈥45.
鈥淟e critique d鈥檃rt,鈥 in F茅lix F茅n茅on: Critique, collectionneur, anarchiste, ed. Isabelle Cahn and Philippe Peltier, exh. cat. (Paris: Mus茅e d鈥橭rsay, 2019), 60鈥79.
Articles:
鈥淣ineteenth-Century French Realism,鈥 Oxford Bibliographies, last modified 23 October 2025, DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199920105-0197
鈥淚mpressionism and Imperialism in Maurice Cullen鈥檚 African River,鈥 RACAR: Revue d鈥檃rt canadienne/Canadian Art Review 46:1 (Spring 2021): 75鈥94.
鈥淭he Temporal Fried,鈥 Nonsite 21, Special issue 鈥淎rt and Objecthood at Fifty鈥 (17 July 2017),
鈥淧hotography and the Philosophy of Time: On Gustave Le Gray鈥檚 Great Wave, S猫te,鈥 Nonsite 19 (3 May 2016),
鈥淐apital in the Nineteenth Century: Edgar Degas鈥檚 Portraits at the Stock Exchange in 1879,鈥 Nonsite 14, Special issue 鈥淣ineteenth-century France Now: Art, Technology, Culture鈥 (15 December 2014),
鈥淭he Motionless Look of a Painting: Jules Bastien-Lepage, Les Foins, and the End of Realism,鈥 Art History 37:1 (February 2014): 38鈥67.
鈥淭he Death of Georges Seurat: Neo-Impressionism and the Fate of the Avant-Garde in 1891,鈥 RIHA Journal 0043, Special Issue 鈥淣ew Directions in Neo-Impressionism鈥 (14 July 2012),
鈥淣apoleon Disfigured: Nation, Identity, and War in Antoine-Jean Gros鈥檚 Battle of Eylau,鈥 Nineteenth Century Studies 26 (2012): 1鈥25.
鈥淗eroic Indolence: Realism and the Politics of Time in Raffa毛lli鈥檚 Absinthe Drinkers,鈥 The Art Bulletin 90:2 (June 2008): 235鈥59.
Wilf: Belfer #522
Beren: 215 Lexington, #708
Yeshiva College
2495 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10033
Stern College for Women
245 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10016