Faculty

Edith Balas

Rank: Professor of Art History,
Adjunct Professor (Department of History)
Ph.D.: University of Pittsburgh, 1973
Department Member Since: 1999

Edith Balas, Professor of Art History, College of Humanities & Social Sciences Balas' main areas of interest are modern art (1890-1960), painting and sculpture, and the art of the Italian Renaissance. Balas published books include Brancusi and His World,(2008); Brancusi & Romanian Folk Traditions, (Second Edition 2006; trans. 1999; First Edition 1987); Michelangelo's Double Self-Portraits (2004); The Early Work of Henry Koerner (2003); The Mother Goddess in Italian Renaissance Art (2002); The Holocaust in the Painting of Valentin Lustig (2001); Joseph Csaky: A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture (1998); and Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation (1995). In 2003, she curated an exhibition at the Frick Art Museum, and several in Pittsburgh, Paris, New York and Budapest. She has been teaching at Carnegie Mellon since 1977, and is also an Adjunct Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. She has published over two dozen articles in the United States, Holland, Hungary, Romania, Italy, and France, and holds an M.A. in Philosophy, 1952, Bucharest; M.A. in History of Arts, 1970, Pittsburgh; Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1973.

Publications

Books
Brancusi and His World, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2008

Brancusi & Romanian Folk Traditions, Second Edition, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006

Brancusi es Brancusi (Hungarian) with Passuth Kristina, Noran Publishing, Budapest, Hungary, 2005

Michelangelo’ Double Self-Portraits, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004

The Early work of Henry Koerner, Frick Art & Historical Center, 2003

The Mother Goddess in the Italian Renaissance, Carnegie Mellon University Press, Summer 2002

The Holocaust in the Painting of Valentin Lustig, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2001

Joseph Csaky: A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture , American Philosophical Society, 1998 - (The Hungarian version was accepted for publication by the Press of the Hungarian Academy) Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation . American Philosophical Society, 1995

Brancusi si Traditii Populare Romanesti, Bucuresti Romania 1998

Brancusi and Romanian Folk Traditions, East European Monographs, Boulder Co. distributed by Columbia University Press, 1987
Book Chapters
William Wallace: Michelangelo's Selected Scholarship in English, Garland Publishing Press, 1995 reprinted “Michelangelo's Victory Its Role and Significance” 3, 459-472 and “Michelangelo's Florentine Slaves and the S.Lorenzo Façade”3, 43-49

Les Carnet de l'Atelier Brancusi: Brancusi et Duchamp “Brancusi, Duchamp et Dada”: Centre Pompidou , Paris, 2000 63-76

International Symposium:Brancusi at his Zenith, and what Next? “The Legacy of Brancusi to the art of the XXI Century”. Univers Enciclopedic 2001, 65-68


Office:
BP A60-J
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Phone:
412.268.2411
Email:
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