Charles Palermo

College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

February–June 2009

Charles Palermo is associate professor of art history at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. His work focuses on early- twentieth-century modernism, and he is the author of Fixed Ecstasy: Joan Miró in the 1920s (University Park, 2008) and of numerous articles in October, Art Bulletin, MLN, and other journals. His Clark project analyzes divisions within bodies in Picasso's "Blue"- and "Rose"-period work and uses them to explore themes (ambiguity between sacred and profane attitudes, etc.) through the work of Paul Gauguin, Paul Verlaine, Charles Morice, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Picasso.