About
As part of the Research Cluster “Animals Mediating the Real and Imaginary” at the Arkeologisk Museum at Universitetet i Stavanger in Norway I am a U.S. Fulbright Foundation Research Scholar, to be followed by Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellowship. My project,
Eden and Everything After: Imagination, Observation, and Utopian Urgency in “Animalized” Art includes public participation, a museum exhibition, monograph, and catalogue, along with actions meant to address the destruction of the Arctic ecosystem and its role in the Sixth Mass Extinction.
The hub of all my work is the writing and art of Franz Marc and his life’s question regarding the perception of animals and the recovery of our relationship with them.
My website,
German Modernism is about all these subjects. When time permits, I write book and exhibition reviews.
Education
PhD, Art History/Germanistik, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (2018)
Erasmus Fellow | Universität Kassel (2016-2017)
Master of Arts, Art History, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (2012)
Master of Arts, Information Science, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (2009)
Bachelor of Arts, Art History, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (2008)Work Shared in CORE
Articles
Book chapters
Conference proceedings
Theses
Blog Posts
Reviews
- bauhaus imaginista frames the Weimar academy’s centennial as a contemporary legacy
- Firelei Báez at the Mennello Museum of American Art
- Fear of a Black Mountain: Tampa Museum of Art’s Elevation of Abstract Expressionism
- Hello World: Revising a Collection at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart
- Franz Marc and August Macke: 1909-1914
- Something in the Way: Season of Love (Patricia Cronin, Yayoi Kusama, and Robert Indiana) at Tampa Museum of Art
- Bill Viola: Life After Death at Stavanger Kunstmuseum
- Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933
- Birds: The Art of Ornithology
- Stereo Lab: Larry Bell and Jesús Rafael Soto at the Tampa Museum of Art
- Modern Masters and Gurlitt Status Report
- Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
- Mernet Larsen: Getting Measured 1957-2017
- Modigliani
- Star Wars and the Power of Costume
- Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask
- Alfred Flechtheim: Kunsthändler der Moderne, The Georg Kolbe Museum, Sensburger Allee 25, Charlottenburg, Berlin. Daily from 10:00 to 18:00 through 17 September
- Animals: Documents of Contemporary Art
- Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim
- Max Beckmann in New York
- Book Review – August Macke and Franz Marc: An Artist Friendship
- Neuerscheinungen zu Franz Marc (New Releases About Franz Marc)
- Kimberly A. Smith, ed., The Expressionist Turn in Art History: A Critical Anthology
- The Cry of Nature: Art and the Making of Animal Rights by Stephen F. Eisenman
Other Publications
Interview: Melissa Thompson, Andrew Lalino, and Jean Marie Carey.
National Public Radio/StoryCorps: One Small Step, 30 July 2019. “
It’s One Area Radical Feminists and Hardcore Conservatives Agree Upon.”
Interview: James Tapper,
The Guardian, 7 November 2019. “
How Netflix is Changing the Way We Learn Languages.”What makes for a quality peer review?”
Interview: Eric Schmeider,
Abstract: On Textbook and Academic Writing, 20 September 2019. “
What makes for a quality peer review?”
Interview: Ilana Kowarski,
U.S. News and World Report, 12 August 2019. “
How Long Does It Take to Get a PhD Degree?”
Ein Manifest der Freundschaft – Trang Vu Thuy (ed.), “Blog des Lenbachhauses,” Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, Germany, February 2015. )
Ideological Objects:
Zum Vortrag von Isabelle Graw Der Wert des Lebendigen – Malerei als indexikalisches Medium in der neuen Ökonomie, (ed.) Althaus, K., The Lenbachhaus, Munich, June 2013.
Projects
Raubkunst at the Ringling: The Story Continues
Its genesis in 2016 was the glimpse of a fin becoming a feather that ignited a strong intuition at ”Raubkunst als Erinnerungsort,” a research fellowship sponsored by the
Zentrum für Historische Forschung der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaftenin Berlin that same December. Eventually, and with the help of many people, “
Raubkunst at the Ringling” ran in the Modernism journal
Lapsus Lima on 9 January 2019 and was picked up in the news all the way to the Antipodes that week with the story “
Otago Link to Identifying Art Looted by Nazis.”
On 13 February 2019 I presented this research about Franz Marc’s woodcuts
Schöpfungsgeschicte II (1914) and
Geburt der Pferde (1913) amid colleagues at the
College Art Association conference in New York City. The very next day I learned “Raubkunst at the Ringling” had been formally recognised as a “solved” case of Nazi looted art with the recognition of my findings by the
Commission for Looted Art in Europe in the annals of
The Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945.
My hope all along has been that the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the State Art Museum of Florida operated by Florida State University, would acknowledge the illicit acquisition of the prints by the American UPI reporter Robert Beattie from the notorious “Kunsthändler to the Third Reich” Bernhard A. Böhmer in 1940 prior to Beattie’s donation of them to the Ringling in 1956 where they have been hidden since, and allow these works to be shared with the public.
To more fully bring this story to light, I have created a collaborative book project half catalogue, half detective story, about these works. Here is the first
Call for Authors:
Piazzetta Provenance Project CFA: Raubkunst at the Ringling: The Catalogue in Absentia.
Write me at
jeanmarie.carey@germanmodernism.org if you are interested in working together on this project.
Memberships
- Historians of German, Scandinavian, and Central European Art (HGSCEA)
- European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)
- New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies
- Italian Art Society
College Art Association
German Studies Association