Warlick, M(arjorie) E(lizabeth)

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WARLICK, M(arjorie) E(lizabeth)

PERSONAL:

Education: University of North Carolina, Greensboro, B.S.H.E. (interior design), 1968; Georgia State University, M.A. (art history), 1976; University of Maryland, Ph.D. (art history), 1984.

ADDRESSES:

Office—University of Denver, 2121 East Asbury, Denver, CO 80208. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, consultant; University of Oregon, visiting assistant professor, 1985-86; University of Colorado, visiting assistant professor, 1987; University of Denver, Denver, CO, assistant professor, 1986-92, director of women's studies, 1987-90, associate professor of art and art history, 1992—.

MEMBER:

College Art Association, Colorado Women's Studies Association, Front Range Art Historians, Midwest Art History Society, Women's Caucus for Art.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Chester Dale fellowship, CASVA, National Gallery of Art, 1982-83; Paul Mellon visiting senior fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, 1990; distinguished professor, University of Denver, 1991; Stirling Maxwell fellowship, University of Glasgow, 1997.

WRITINGS:

The Philosopher's Stones, Journey Editions (Boston, MA), 1997.

Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth ("Surrealist Revolution" series), University of Texas Press (Austin, TX), 2001.

The Alchemy Stones, Marlowe (New York, NY), 2002.

Contributor to periodicals and journals, including Art Journal and Leondardo.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Alchimia: Alchemical Images of Women, a book on images of women in alchemical manuscripts and early printed books.

SIDELIGHTS:

M. E. Warlick is an associate professor of art and art history whose background is in the nineteenth-and twentieth-century history of art. Her special interests are surrealism and women's studies and the interdisciplinary links between art, the humanities, and the history of science, especially alchemical imagery.

Warlick's Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth is a study of the German artist who founded the Cologne Dada movement, then moved to Paris in 1922 to join the Surrealists. Warlick examines Ernst's early art, the literature on the Surrealists' attraction to alchemy, the alchemical symbolism of Ernst's collage novels and this symbolism's relation to his life, which included many relationships. She also notes how his works reflect his interest in psychoanalysis, a subject he studies at the University of Bonn in addition to art history and philosophy.

Gavin Parkinson wrote in the Times Literary Supplement that Warlick's "own scrupulously researched chapters on the artist's formative years and pre-Surrealist paintings, together with her abbreviated history of alchemy, its literature and the 'occultation of surrealism' which began in the 1920s, are useful additions to the existing scholarship." A Harper's contributor called the volume "at once a biography, a history of surrealism, and an engaging interpretation of sixty years of painting."