Arthur Pontynen

Professor (Ph.D., University of Iowa)

specialty

 Art Theory, Asian, American and Modern Art

courses

• Art 109 - Art History Survey I
• Art 110 - Art History Survey II
• Art 311 - Medieval Art
• Art 317 - Art of India, China, and Japan
• Art 321 - Modern Art
  
• Art 323 - American Art
• Art 484 - Capstone
  

contact info

Office:  A/C S205
Telephone:  920.424.7067
E-mail:  pontynen@uwosh.edu

Current Projects

A book length text tentatively titled "Western Culture at the American Crossroads: Science, Reason and Culture."

Select publications

• Co-author:  Western Culture at the American Crossroad: Narratives of Science and Reason (ISI/ The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, in press).
  
• For the Love of Beauty: Art, History, and the Moral Foundations of Aesthetic Judgment (Transaction Publishers, 2006).
  
• Numerous publications and reviews are found in a wide variety of venues including the “Art Bulletin,” “Oriental Art,” “Bulletin of the Field Museum,” “ACE:  Art and Christian Enquiry,” and “American Outlook Magazine.”
  

SELECT GRANTS

Smithsonian, Heritage Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities.