Loren Lerner, PhD
- Retired Professor, Art History
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Loren Lerner is Professor Emerita of Art History at Concordia University. She has a multidisciplinary background in art history (MA, University of Michigan), library science (MLS, McGill University), and communication studies (PhD, Université de Montréal). Her main undergraduate teaching areas included nineteenth- and twentieth-century European, North American, and Middle Eastern art, with a focus on the history of cities, social issues, and collective memory. Topics ranged from political awareness and identity development to gender, class, the modern experience of otherness, nature, and sexuality. In her graduate courses,she emphasized ethnic, diasporic, and ethical consciousness in North American art-making, as well as curatorial practices related to Canadian art. Lerner was editor for Afterimage: Evocations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Arts and Literature / Rémanences: Evocations de l'Holocauste dans les artset littérature canadiens contemporains (Montreal: Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University, 2002) and guest curator of Memories and Testimonies/Memoires et Témoignages (Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, April 2002, traveling exhibition). In 2005,Lerner curated the Sam Borenstein retrospective exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, as well as Picturing Her:Images of Girlhood / Salut les filles: La jeune fille en images at the McCord Museum. She was the editor of Depicting Canada's Children, published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 2009. Journal articles and essays from 2007 to 2018 on images of young people appear in Rethinking Professionalism: Essays on Women and Art in Canada, 1850-1970, Canadian Children’s Literature, Journal of Canadian Art History,Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Girlhood Studies, Historical Studies in Education, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada,Healing the World’s Children and Girlhood and the Politics of Place. An interest in Canadian art publications, first manifested in Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature (University of Toronto Press, 1991), led to her article on“William Notman’s Photographic Selections (1863),” analyzing this compilation as the first history of art book published in Canada. This article was published in JCAH/AHAC (2012). Research on the intersections of art and religion resulted in her guest editorship, in 2012, of a special issue on contemporary art and religion for JCAH/AHAC (2012). A pedagogical commitment to student web publishing has guided Lerner’s teaching and the development of websites such as "Public Art as Social Intervention: But Now I Have to Speak - Testimonies of Trauma and Resilience" funded by Canada Council, "Canadian Artists of Eastern European Origin" supported by a Canadian Heritage Multiculturalism Canada research grant, "Canada’s Got Treasures" funded by Industry Canada in association with the Canadian Heritage Information Network(CHIN), "Family Works" financed by the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, "Metro Borduas, Ensemble, An Exhibition of Art and Jazz," "Canadian Portraits," and "Picturing Children and Youth: A Canadian Perspective" funded by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute of Studies on Canadian Art, as well as "Global Engagements in Contemporary Canadian Art: Thirty-Nine Exhibition Essays and Fifty-Five Artists," "Rethinking Visual Narration: Myths, Religious Stories, Fairy Tales, Legends and Other Collective Beliefs and Accounts in Contemporary Canadian Art," and "Envisioning Virtual Exhibitions" hosted on the Institute's CCCA Academy website. Her most recent publications are with Janice Anderson, Shannon Stride, and Karine Antaki, co-eds., Craft and Craftivism: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Clay, Fibre, and Glass Artists in Canada (Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, 2025); with Karine Antaki, Creating the Modern: Intersections of Art and Society in the Nineteenth Century (Concordia University Library, 2024); and with Shannon Stride, eds. Guide to Studying the Visual Arts in Canada (Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Concordia University, 2023).
Education
Ph.D., Communication, Université de Montréal, 1997. dissertation: "Managerial Sensemaking: A Semionarrative Analysis of Discourse in a Government Setting." Open PDF
M.L.S., McGill University,1975. M.A., History of Art, University of Michigan, 1972. B.A., Honours, Fine Arts, McGill University, 1969.
Areas of Expertise
- History of Cities
- Nineteenth Century Art History
- Portraits and Portrayals
- Canadian Contemporary Craft and Craftivism
- Canadian Art History
Research Activities
Loren Lerner's current research interests focus on free eBooks, including Canadian art studies, European modern art, portraiture, drawing, and Canadian contemporary crafts.
Publications
Co-editor with Janice Anderson,Shannon Stride, and Karine Antaki, Craft and Craftivism: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Clay, Fibre, and Glass Artists in Canada.Montreal: Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, 2025.Open Source
Lerner, Loren, and Karine Antaki,Creating the Modern: Intersections of Art and Society in the Nineteenth Century. Concordia University Library, 2024. Open Textbook PDF
Stride, Shannon, and Loren Lerner, eds. Guide to Studying the Visual Arts in Canada. Guides to Canadian Art History, Art Education, Curatorial Studies, and Material Culture. (Montreal:Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, 2023). Textbook PDF
Co-organizer with Janice Anderson and Martha Langford. Growing Canadian Art Histories. Studying the Visual Arts in Canada was launched on March 29, 2023, with an online panel of educators and curators, entitled “Growing Canadian Art Histories.”Guest speakers were Gentiane Bélanger, Elizabeth A. Cavaliere, Mark A.Cheetham, Tammer El-Sheikh, Cynthia Imogen Hammond, Cathy Mattes, Gwendolyn Owens, Erin Silver, and Carla Taunton, moderated by Martha Langford. View Video
A Visual Journey of Art Publications on the History of Children and Youth. SHCY, 2022. Open Source
“Authority and Agency." In Adriana Benzaquén, ed. A Cultural History of Youth in the Age of Enlightenment (Bloomsbury Press, 2022), 165-194. View Here
Marion Wagschal, Pariah2008. CanadARThistories. Open Source
“The Ethical Development of Boys in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile and Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s Artworks.” Lumen 40 (2021): 121–146. Open PDF
The Visual Culture of Las Vegas: From Its Foundation to the Present Time. Concordia University, 2020. Open Source
"The Infant, the Mother, and the Breast in the Paintings of Marguerite Gérard." In Martina Domines Veliki and Cian Duffy, eds. Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 65-90. Chapter PDF
"Youth and Sunlight: Reflections of Childhood." In Canada and Impressionism: New Horizons, 1880-1930, Katerina Atanassova, ed. (National Gallery of Canada,Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2019), 83-94. Open Source
“George Agnew Reid's Paintings in Relation to English-Canadian Collective Memories of Rural Childhood in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Canada." Our Rural Selves: Memory and the Visual in Canadian Childhoods, eds. Claudia Mitchell and April Mandrona.( Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019) 20-40. Open Source
Anna Dawson Harrington’s Landscape Drawings and Letters: Interweaving the Visual and Textual Spaces of an Autobiography. Material Culture Review / Revue de la culture matérielle 86 (2017): 65-74. Article PDF
Guest editor for a special issue on Children in Museum Settings for the Journal of the History of Children and Youth (Fall 2018).
"Guest Editor's Introduction: Children in Museum Settings." Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 11 no. 3 (2018): 289-297. Open Source
"The Manipulation of Indigenous Imagery to Represent Canadian Childhood and Nationhood in 19th Century Canada." Nineteenth Century Childhoods in Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives, eds. Jane Eva Baxter and Meredith Ellis (Oxbow Books, 2018), 15-33. Open Source
"The Canadian Jewish Connection to the Visual Narrative of Nationhood at the Jewish Palestine Pavilion in New York (1939) and the Israel Pavilion and Pavilion of Judaism in Montreal (1967), Canadian Jewish Studies 26 (Fall 2018): 135-153. Open Source
Canadian Art: A Child's World, Annual Loan Exhibition, October 28 -November 11, 2017. (Montreal: Galerie Eric Klinkhoff, 2017) Open Source
Editor, Rethinking Visual Narration. CCCA Academy, 2016. Open Source
Editor, Family Works, A Website Produced in Partnership with Concordia University and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2016. Open Source
"'What This Picture of a Girl Means to Me': The Place of Girlhood Images in the Art History University Classroom." In Girlhood and the Politics of Place, eds. Carrie Rentschler and Claudia Mitchell (Berghahn Press, 2016), 175-194. Open Source
"William Notman’s Home Library: Discovering Underlying Meaning in the Portrait Photograph." In A la recherche du savoir : nouveaux échangessur les collections du Musée McCord / Collecting Knowledge: New Dialogues on McCord Museum Collections. Joanne Burgess, Cynthia Cooper, Céline Widmer, and Natasha Zwarich, eds. (Montreal:Editions MultiMondes, 2016), 85-109. Open Source
City of Jerusalem: Images and Ideas. Concordia University, 2014. Open Source
Editor. Jerusalem Art History Journal: An Undergraduate Journal / Histoire de l’art à Jérusalem : cyberrevue étudiante de premier cycle. Open Journal
2014, vol.1
2015, vol.2
2016, vol. 3
2017, vol. 4
Editor. Global Engagements in Contemporary Canadian Art: Thirty-Nine Exhibition Essays and Fifty-Five Artists / Art contemporain canadien et mobilisation universelle : trente-neuf textes d'exposition;cinquante-cinq artistes. CCCA Academy, 2014. Open PDF
Editor. Envisioning Virtual Exhibitions. CCCA Academy, 2013. Open Source
and Suzanne Rackover,"Jews in Canadian Art." Canada's Jews: In Time, Space, and Spirit,ed. Ira Robinson. (Academic Studies Press, 2013), 422-450. Open Source
Editor. Canadian Portraits, 2012. Open Journal
Guest Editor. Contemporary Art and Religion. Religion and the Arts17 (2013).
"Introduction:Special Section on Contemporary Art and Religion," Religion and the Arts 17 (2013),1-19. Open Source
"William Notman’s Photographic Selections (1863)." Journal of Canadian ArtHistory / Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien 33 no.1 (2012), 16-45. Open Pdf
Guest Editorial.Contemporary Art and Religion. Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien 33 no. 2 (2012), 10-20. Open Source
"Rejection and Renewal: Art and Religion in Canada (1926-2010)." Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien 33 no.2 (2012), 21-52. Open Source
"Wassily Kandinsky’s Concerning the Spiritual in Art and the Video Works of Sylvia Safdie, Marisa Portolese, Marielle Nitoslawska and Sarindar Dhaliwal." Journal of Canadian Art History / Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien, 33, no.2 (2012), 101-128. Open Source
Editor, Ensemble: Art and Jazz. FOFA Gallery, 2011. Open Journal
"Kathleen Daly’s Images of Inuit People: Professional Art and the Practice of Ethnography." Rethinking Professionalism: Essays on Women and Art in Canada, 1850-1970. Kristina Huneault and Janice Anderson, eds. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012), 225-258. Open Source
"Picturing Her: Seeing Again and Again. “Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 3 no. 2 (Winter 2011), 100-117. Open PDF
"Dr. Norman Bethune:Biographical Objects and Exhibitions." Material Culture Review/Revue de la culture matérielle no. 72 (Fall 2010), 51-61. Open Source
"Photographs of the Child in Canadian Pictorial from 1906 to 1916: A Reflection of the Ideas and Values of English Canadians about Themselves and 'Other' Canadians.”Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 3.2 (2010), 233-263. Open PDF
"The Unmasking of Norman Bethune." Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoire del'art canadien (Winter 2010), 99-113. Open Source
Editor, Picturing Children and Youth: A Canadian Perspective, 2010. Open Source
Editor. Depicting Canada’s Children. (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009).
"William Notman’s Portrait Photographs of the Wealthy English-speaking Girls of Montreal: Representations of Informal Female Education in Relation to John Ruskin’s 'Of Queens' Gardens' and Writings by and for Canadians from the 1850s to1890s." Historical Studies in Education 21 no.2 (Fall 2009),65-87. Open Source
"George Reid’s Paintings as Narratives of a Child Nation." Depicting Canada’s Children.(Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009), 325-346. Open Source
"William Notman’s Portrait Photographs of Girls Reading from the 1860s to 1880s: A Pictorial Analysis based on Contemporary Writings." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada / Cahiers de la Société bibliographies Canada 47 no.1 (2009), 45-73. Open Source
"Introduction." Blessings,Art and Essays on Jewish Blessings Gathered for Two Exhibitions and a Symposium at Montreal's Temple Emanu-El Beth Sholom, May 10-14, 2007.Montreal: Centre for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University, 2009, 6-9. Open PDF
"Sam Borenstein and Marius Barbeau" In Around and About Marius Barbeau: Modeling Twentieth-Century Culture. Lynda Jessup, Andrew Nurse, and Gordon E. Smith, eds. (Mercury Series, Culture Studies Paper 83). Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2008, 19-136.
"When the Children Are Sick, So Is Society: Dr Norman Bethune and the Montreal Circle of Artists." Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century. Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden,and George Weisz, eds. (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008), 253-281. Open Source
"Adolescent Girls, Adult Women: Coming of Age Images by Five Canadian Women Artists." Girlhood Studies 1no. 2 (Winter 2008), 1-28. Open Source
"Canada Receiving the Homage of Her Children: George Reid's Ave Canada and Gustav Hahn’s Hail Dominion: A Proposal of Murals for the Entrance Hall of Canada’s Parliament Buildings." Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoire del'art canadien 29 (2008), 50-89. Open Source
"Innocence. “Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia. Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, eds. (Westport:Greenwood, 2008), vol. 2, 365-368. Open Source
"From Victorian Girl Reader to Modern Woman Artist: Reading and Seeing in the Paintings of the Canadian Girl by William Brymner, Emily Coonan, and Prudence Heward." Canadian Children's Literature/ Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 33 no. 2 (Autumn 2007), 19-50. Open Source
"Performing Katja." Katja MacLeod Kessin, Memorial Exhibition, February 7,1959-April 1, 2006. Montreal: FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, 2007,pp. 29-38. Open PDF Open Source
Editor. Ensemble, An Exhibition of Art and Jazz, 2007. Open Source
Editor. Metro Borduas: The Underground Landscape of Abstract Art in Montréal. 2006. Open Source
Review of Erika Langmuir, Imagining Childhood (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006). H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences,1-4. Open Source
Sam Borenstein. Montreal Museum of FineArts / Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, 2005. Open Source, Second Page
Picturing Her: Images of Girlhood / Salut les filles: La jeune fille en images. McCord Museum, 2005. Open Source
"The Aron Museum at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Montreal." Material Culture Review / Revue de la culturematérielle 64 (Fall 2004), 8-19. Open Source
"Sam Borenstein, Artist and Dealer: The Polemics of Post-Holocaust Jewish Cultural Identity." Canadian Jewish Studies / Etudes juives canadiennes 12 (2004), 31-44. Open Source
Editor. Afterimage:Evocations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Arts and Literature / Rémanences: Evocations de l'Holocauste dans les arts et littérature canadiens contemporains (Montreal: Centre for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University, 2002). Open Source
Memories and Testimonies/Mémoires et Témoignages. Montreal: Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Galerie d'art Leonard et Bina Ellen, Université Concordia, 2002. Open PDF
Contributing Editor. Public Art as Social Intervention, 1999. OpenSource
Editor. Canadian Artists of Eastern European Origin.1999. Open Source
"Looking Back, Looking Forward: Canadian Women Artists and Postmodern Rememberings of Eastern Europe." Canadian Ethnic Studies, 12, no. 3 (1999):44-71. Open Source
"Liliana Berezowsky: Mythical Echoes in a Journey of Phantasma." Etc Montréal 47(1999): 38-41. Open Source
Editor. Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature / Film et vidéo canadiens: bibliographie et guide de la documentation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. (Also available through Concordia University Libraries, online database.)
Co-editor, with Mary Williamson. Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to theLiterature / Art et architecture au Canada: une bibliographie et guide de la documentation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. (Also available through Concordia University Libraries, online database.)
Selected AcademicPresentations:
Las Vegas, Cityo f the Atomic Age: Pop Culture and Protest Art (January 29, 2022) Open Presentation Slides View Video
An Analysis of the Text and Images of Jori Smith’s Charlevoix County, 1930: In Reference tot he Ideas of Marius Barbeau and Dr. Norman Bethune,” part of Modernisms, Inside& Out: The Fourth Conference of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative, 30 September - 2 October 2021, Toronto. View Video
Rousseau’s Influence on Greuze’s Depiction of the Moral Development of Boys, Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS), Quebec City (October 18, 2019).
Broken Nature and Las Vegas: Artistic Prophecies of Catastrophe and Extinction, UAAC, QuebecCity (October 25, 2019). View Video
The Infant, the Mother, and the Breast in the Paintings of Marguerite Gérard, UAAC, Waterloo(October 26, 2018) Open PDF
The Israeli Visual Narrative of Nationhood at World Fairs, Faces of Israel at Expo 67,Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, Concordia University (May 23, 2017). View Video
Family Works: A Multiplicity of Meanings and Contexts, UAAC Conference, UQAM (October 29, 2016) Open Source
Lessons from the Library: Web Publishing as a forum for student empowerment and engagement, Networked Art Histories Conference, Concordia University (October 21, 2016) Open Source
Teaching Jerusalem: an interview with Dr Loren Lerner, Concordia University (March16, 2015) Open Source
Anna Dawson Harrington’s Drawings and Letters: Visual and Textual Elements of an Autobiography,” part of The Artist Herself: Broadening Ideas of Self-Portraiture in Canada. Third Conference of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative (May 8, 2015), Queen’s University and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston. View Video
Aging-Related Images: A Case Study of Marion Wagschal's Figurative Self-Portraits." Part of Imagining History: A Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Conference, May 3-5, 2012, Concordia University. View Video
Girlhood Innocence and Sexuality: How Canadian Artists Marisa Portolese, Angela Grossmann, and Fiona Smyth Resist and Contest New Media and Technology, 2010, McGill University. Open PDF
Idea of Coming of Age on the Road: The Social Construction of Female Adolescence, Society for the History of Children and Youth Conference, 2009, University of California, Berkeley. Open PDF
Selected Public Presentations:
The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem: A Symbol of Three Faiths for Jews, Muslims and Christians, (January 2025) Open Presentation Slides
The Artistic Developments in Israeli Art from the Pre-state Years to the Present Day (May 2023) OpenPresentation Slides
The Historical Origins of Passover and Its Symbolic Imagery in the Judaica of the Aron Museum (April 2021) OpenPresentation Slides
Teaching activities
Undergraduate Courses
Since 2000
- ARTH 366 Aspects of 19th Century Western Art and Architecture - Topic: The Changing Idea of the Avant-Garde in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Painting
- ARTH 398 - Las Vegas: Fine Art and Architecture and the Spectacle of Populist Art (Special Topics in Art and Society)
- ARTH 369 Studies in Near Eastern Art and Architecture -Topic: The City of Jerusalem
- ARTH 262 Studies in Drawing - Topic: The Creative Drawing from the 19th Century to the Present Day
- ARTH 298 Special Topics in Genre Studies: The Human Face
- ARTH 450H/2 Advanced Seminar - Topic: "Here's Looking at you Kid": Picturing Children, Envisioning Childhood
Graduate Courses
- ARTH 610G Re-Visioning The Twentieth Century: Political Theorists and North American Art from 1970-2000
- ARTH 610G Hate, Violence and Genocide Effects in Twentieth Century North American Art and Theory
- ARTH 649 Aspects of Curatorial Practice
Thesis Supervision
MA
Maya Hajdu, MA
Fragmented Memories in the Graphic Novel
Convocation: Spring 2012
Olivia Pipe, MA
Girl Words: The female language and politicized body in Jana Sterbak's drawings
Convocation: Fall 2011
Pohanna Pyne Feinberg
Making the Invisible Visible: Documenting the Creative Process: A Case Study of the Archive From the Skol-CEDA Co-Creative Collaboration
Convocation: Spring 2011
Marie Péron, MA
Contemporary Representation of Aboriginal Art in the National Museum: New Frameworks for Change in Canada and Australia
Convocation: Fall 2010
Amber Berson, MA
Image and Memory: Art About Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women
Convocation: Spring 2010
Laura Endacott, MA (SIP)
The Mother Image
Convocation: Spring 2010
Doug Pope, MA
Multiple Velocities: A Study of Motion in the Work of Rita Letendre, Serge Lemoyne and Claude Tousignant
Convocation: Fall 2007
Alice Dind, MA
Frederick H. Varley's Self-Portraits Unmasked by his Autobiographical Writings: A Reflection of the Effects of War, Religious/Spiritual Influences and Communion with Nature
Convocation: Spring 2005
Ilga Leimanis, MA (SIP)
Archiving the Self: George Legrady's Immigration Story in 'An Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War
Convocation: Fall 2004
Loretta Flegel, MA
Parts in Play: the Rosalyne Osborne Stearn Collection at McGill University
Convocation: Fall 2003
Suzanne B. Rackover, MA
The Holocaust Art of Gershon Iskowitz, Isaac Applebaum, and Yebouda Chaki: A Critical Approach in Relation to the Philosophical Writings of Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, and Julia Kristeva
Convocation: Spring 2003
Martin Kapustianyk, MA
Dialogues of Death-in-Life: The Photographic Works of Sandra Semchuk and the Exhibition Coming to Death's Door: A Daughter/Father Collaboration
Convocation: Spring 2003
Arshi Dewan, MA (SIP)
Weaving as Art: An Examination of the Revival of Weaving in the Chittagong Hill Tracts Convocation: Fall 2002
Nicolas ChampRoux, MA
Les Relations incestueuses entre la photographie et l'architecture moderne ou la representation photographique de la Place Ville Marie entre Septembre 1962 et Février 1963
Convocation: Fall 2001
Mikaela Victoria Bobiy, MA
Painting the zone: Chernobyl and the "Art of Witness"
Convocation: Fall 2000
Shannon Anderson, MA
Probing the Surface: The Family Archive Revisited in Installations by Wyn Geleynse, Mindy Yan Miller and Yvonne Singer
Convocation: Spring 2000
Lori-Ann Beaudoin, MA
A Cultural Illness: Women, Identity, and Eating Problems in Faith Ringgold's Change Series
Convocation: Fall 1999
PhD
Katja Kessin MacLeod, Humanities (Co-Supervisor)
To Lend the Dead a Voice: Second-Generation German Visual Art
Convocation: Fall 2003