Milette Gaifman

About

Milette Gaifman is the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Classics and History of Art at Yale University, where she also serves as Department Chair of the History of Art. She received her B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1997 and her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2005. Prior to her appointment at Yale in September 2005, she was the Hanadiv Fellow and Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, during 2004–2005. Her scholarly focus is on ancient art and archaeology, with an emphasis on Greek art of the Archaic and Classical periods. Her research interests include the interaction between visual culture and religion, the variety of artistic forms from naturalistic to non-figural, the interactive traits of different artistic media, and the reception of Greek art in later periods. She also explores the historiography of art history and archaeology disciplines. Gaifman is the author of several significant publications, including 'Aniconism in Greek Antiquity' and 'The Art of Libation in Classical Athens,' and is working on a forthcoming book titled 'A Landmark Through Time: On Classifying Greek Art and Architecture.' She has held various academic honors and visiting positions, including at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, the University of Paris Diderot, and the University of Aberdeen. At Yale, she has served as Chair of the Department of History of Art and has previously been Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies in the…

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Art history
• Visual arts
• Art
• Philosophy
• Epistemology

Selected publications

• The Art of Libation in Classical Athens

  Yale University Press eBooks · 2018-01-01 · 87 citations

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  Review of The Art of Libation in Classical Athens, Reviewed July 2018 by Courtney Baron, Teaching and Learning Librarian, Oxford College of Emory University, courtney.baron@emory.edu.

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• The Embodied Object in Classical Antiquity

  Research Portal (King's College London) · 2018-06-01 · 35 citations

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• Aniconism: definitions, examples and comparative perspectives

  Religion · 2017-07-03 · 29 citations

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  This introductory essay to this thematic issue on aniconism argues for the value of considering various forms of aniconism side by side. It summarizes briefly the historiography of the terms ‘aniconism’ and ‘aniconic,’ noting that they originate in the work of Johannes Adolph Overbeck, who coined the expressions anikonisch and Anikonismus. It considers current definitions and proposes ‘aniconism’ be used to denote divine presence without a figural image in religious practice, in the visual arts,…

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• Introduction: From Grecian Urn to Embodied Object

  Art History · 2018-06-01 · 25 citations

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• Framing Divine Bodies in Greek Art

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2017-04-10 · 14 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Verity Platt

  Atkins (United States)

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• Lillian Lan-ying Tseng

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• Michael Squire

  5 shared

• Graham Harman

  2 shared

• Robin Osborne

  1 shared

• Katharine Earnshaw

  Birkbeck, University of London

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• Miguel Versluys

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1 shared

• Nikolaus Dietrich

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Awards & honors

• Jane Faggen Dissertation Prize from Princeton University’s D…
• Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Pub…
• Gaddis Smith International Book Prize from the MacMillan Cen…

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