Marnin
Young
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Yeshiva College; Associate Professor of Art History, Stern College for Women
Wilf: Belfer #522
Beren: 215 Lexington, #708
Yeshiva College
2495 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10033
Stern College for Women
245 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10016
Dr. Young's research revolves around the new circumstances of artistic exhibition in late nineteenth-century France. He is especially interested in the history of art criticism, the formation of the avant-garde, and the theory of artistic autonomy. Recent publications include essays on Nineteenth-Century French Realism, Impressionism, and Vincent van Gogh. A book on Georges Seurat is forthcoming.
For his teaching at Stern College for Women, Dr. Young was selected as the Lillian F. and William L. Silber Professor of the Year (2011) and the General Studies Professor of the Year by the Senior Classes of 2011, 2012, and 2015. He also received the Dean Karen Bacon Faculty Award in 2014.
Books:
Realism in the Age of Impressionism: Painting and the Politics of Time (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015).
Book Chapters:
“The Double Spectacle of Seurat’s Chahut,” in Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists, ed. Julien Domercq, exh. cat. (London: The National Gallery, 2025), 174–191.
“‘Unity is Strength’: Van Gogh and the Exhibitions of the Avant-Garde,” in Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers, ed. Cornelia Homburg, exh. cat. (London: The National Gallery, 2024), 113–128.
“Van Gogh’s Realism,” in Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources, ed. Eik Kahng, exh. cat. (Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press 2022), 93–121.
“Impressionism and Criticism,” in A Companion to Impressionism, ed. André Dombrowski (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), 11–26.
“Fénéon’s Art Criticism,” in Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde, ed. Starr Figura, Isabelle Cahn, and Philippe Peltier, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2020), 32–45.
“Le critique d’art,” in Félix Fénéon: Critique, collectionneur, anarchiste, ed. Isabelle Cahn and Philippe Peltier, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée d’Orsay, 2019), 60–79.
Articles:
“Nineteenth-Century French Realism,” Oxford Bibliographies, last modified 23 October 2025, DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199920105-0197
“Impressionism and Imperialism in Maurice Cullen’s African River,” RACAR: Revue d’art canadienne/Canadian Art Review 46:1 (Spring 2021): 75–94.
“The Temporal Fried,” Nonsite 21, Special issue “Art and Objecthood at Fifty” (17 July 2017),
“Photography and the Philosophy of Time: On Gustave Le Gray’s Great Wave, Sète,” Nonsite 19 (3 May 2016),
“Capital in the Nineteenth Century: Edgar Degas’s Portraits at the Stock Exchange in 1879,” Nonsite 14, Special issue “Nineteenth-century France Now: Art, Technology, Culture” (15 December 2014),
“The Motionless Look of a Painting: Jules Bastien-Lepage, Les Foins, and the End of Realism,” Art History 37:1 (February 2014): 38–67.
“The Death of Georges Seurat: Neo-Impressionism and the Fate of the Avant-Garde in 1891,” RIHA Journal 0043, Special Issue “New Directions in Neo-Impressionism” (14 July 2012),
“Napoleon Disfigured: Nation, Identity, and War in Antoine-Jean Gros’s Battle of Eylau,” Nineteenth Century Studies 26 (2012): 1–25.
“Heroic Indolence: Realism and the Politics of Time in Raffaëlli’s Absinthe Drinkers,” The Art Bulletin 90:2 (June 2008): 235–59.
Wilf: Belfer #522
Beren: 215 Lexington, #708
Yeshiva College
2495 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10033
Stern College for Women
245 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10016