Geoff Lehman

Geoff Lehman received his BA in humanities from Yale University, where he studied literature, philosophy, and art history in an interdisciplinary context. He received his PhD in art history from Columbia University, with a dissertation on the relationship between perspective and Renaissance landscape painting. Before coming to Bard College Berlin, he taught art history for several years in Columbia University’s core curriculum. His research interests include Italian Renaissance painting, the theory and history of perspective, landscape painting, phenomenological approaches to the interpretation of art, and the relationship between art, philosophy, and literature. He has co-authored a book with former Bard College Berlin colleague Michael Weinman, The Parthenon and Liberal Education (SUNY Press, 2018), a study of the Parthenon in relation to Plato and to ancient Greek music theory and mathematics. Other publications include articles or book chapters on Leonardo da Vinci’s depictions of nature (2019), on the relationship between Bruegel and Shakespeare (2020), and on Titian’s Allegory of Marriage (2022), among others. Recent courses taught at Bard College Berlin include Through the Looking-Glass: Art and the Oneiric; Landscape, Land Art, and the City; Photography and Modernity; Raphael, Titian, and the Art of Painting; Vision and Perspective; and Las Meninas and the Pictorial Encounter.
 
Core Courses

• Forms of Love
• Renaissance Florence
• Greek Civilization: Plato's Republic and Its Interlocutors
• Objectivity. Saper vedere: Knowing How to See
   

Foundational and Advanced Modules

• Art and Interpretation
• Raphael, Titian, and the Art of Painting
• Vision and Perspective
• Pablo Picasso
• Landscape, Land Art, and the City
• Photography and Modernity
• Representation
• Perspective in the Renaissance
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Methods and Interpretation: The Visual Arts
• Mimesis
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder
• Through the Looking-Glass: Art and the Oneiric
• Las Meninas and the Pictorial Encounter

General Teaching Interests

• Italian and Northern Renaissance art; art and viewer response; art theory and criticism; painting; photography
   

Contact
Dr. Geoff Lehman
Art History
Phone: +49 30 43733 205
Email: g.lehman[at]berlin.bard.edu