Elizabeth Legge
Associate Professor, Fine Art History
Affiliated Faculty, CSUS
Phone
416-585-4573
Fax
416-978-7891
Location
Sidney Smith Hall, Room 6036, 100 St George Street
Website
www.art.utoronto.ca/people/art-history/graduate-faculty/legge
Biography
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.
research Interests
Dada
Surrealism
Contemporary Canadian and British art
education
Ph.D. Courtauld Institute, University of London, 1986
M.A Courtauld Institute, University of London
B.A Cambridge University, 1976
B.A. University of Toronto, 1973
awards and distinctions
University of Winnipeg research grant, 1987
S. S. H. R. C. Doctoral Fellowship, 1985
Commonwealth Scholarship for doctoral research, 1981-1984