Ara Merjian
Department of Art History
Office phone:
merjian@stanford.edu

Ara H. Merjian received his B.A. from Yale University in 1996, and his Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006. He is currently at work on a book based upon his dissertation, Urban Untimely: Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City, which examines de Chirico’s cityscapes in the light of the artist’s extensive study of Nietzschean philosophy.

Recent publications include contributions to Routledge’s Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography (2005) and Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons, and Impact (2005), as well an essay on the photography of Bernd and Hilla Becher. He authored a chapter on Rudolf Arnheim for The Visual Turn: Classical Film Theory and Art History, and a forthcoming piece on Ricciotto Canudo, early film theory, and the French avant-gardes will appear in a major anthology of European film theory.

Ara is also a translator, and is currently completing the English translation of Giorgio de Chirico’s second novel, Il Signor Dudron/Monsieur Dudron. He recently finished translating a short novel from the Catalan, Quadern d’Aram, by Maria Angels Anglada.

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