Elizabeth Legge
Associate Professor, Department of Art History
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Areas of interest
- Modern/Contemporary Art
- Dada
- Surrealism
- Contemporary Canadian and British art
Biography
Main Bio
Elizabeth Legge works on Dada, Surrealism, and contemporary Canadian, U.S., and British art. She has written for a number of journals including Art History, Word and Image, and Representations. She has written books on Max Ernst and psychoanalysis; and on Michael Snow’s radical New York film of the 1960s, Wavelength. Her intellectual interests include: the ways that artists have worked with language; and the instrumental uses of religious, racial, and national stereotypes and rhetorics in art. She has been a visiting professor at the Humanities Centre at Johns Hopkins University.