Dr Diana J. Kostyrko
Areas of expertise
- Art Theory And Criticism 1901
- Cultural Studies 2002
- Consumption And Everyday Life 200203
- Cultural Theory 200204
- Art History 190102
- Language, Communication And Culture Not Elsewhere Classified 209999
Research interests
Provenance research; Rene Gimpel (1881-1945) & Journal d'un collectionneur; Art and politics of collecting; Transatlantic art dealership; Rise of the modern European art market; Rhetorics of exclusion and inclusion; Politics of dominion and enclosure; Franco-American culture in the interwar period.
Researcher's projects
The Journal of a Transatlantic Art Dealer, René Gimpel 1918-1939 (monograph), Harvey Miller Publishers, an imprint of Brepols Publishing, December 2017, 360p, 1 col.+ 45 b&w ills, chronology, index, bibliography, 2xgenealogical tables, and a select database of artworks with provenance (under revision);
Book chapter: 'Taste', in A Cultural History of Collecting in the Modern Age, ed. Robert Jensen, Bloomsbury Academic's Cultural History of Collecting series (forthcoming);
Book chapter: 'Duveen', in Beyond Borders: the Key to Art Market Power, eds Vera Mariz and Lea Saint-Raymond (Lisbon: University of Lisbon), forthcoming, 2022;
Live Book Discussion: May 2021: 'The Journal of a Transatlantic Art Dealer: Rene Gimpel 1918-1939', hosted by The International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA);
Paper: Dec. 2021: 'A Parisian in London & New York: An Accidental Art Dynasty' in Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market (1850-1930): Pt 2 (forthcoming, eds Thomas Stammers & Silvia Davoli);
Paper: Gulbenkian Cast as Dramatical Subject – Ravadjian! Calouste Gulbenkian: as model or anomaly? Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, conference Friday 15-Saturday 16 February 2019: Collecting Modus Operandi, 1900-1950, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the museum.
Paper: Mute Witness: the Polish Poetess (a gentle narrative of redemption), Cambridge University conference 23-24 March 2017: From Refugees to Restitution: the History of Nazi Looted Art in the UK in Transnational and Global Perspective.
Paper: ‘In Disgrace with Fortune’: a Transatlantic Courtier and Capricious Patrons, Christie’s Education, New York, symposium 17-18 March 2017: Pioneers of the Global Art Market: International Dealer Networks from the Mid-nineteenth through the Mid-twentieth Century.
Book chapter: 'Can a Leopard Change its Spots? Rene Gimpel, Art Dealer', in Art Markets, Agents and Collectors: Collecting Strategies in Europe and the United States: 1550-1950 ed. by Adriana Turpin and Susan Bracken, (London: Bloomsbury Academic (Visual Arts), Contextualizing Art Markets series, April 2021.
Entries (2): for the art market dictionary, published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Art Markets: Protagonists, Networks, Provenances (online database accessible 15 March 2023).
‘In Disgrace with Fortune’: Transatlantic courtiers and capricious patrons (monograph, work-in-progress);
Database of artworks with provenance (ongoing work-in-progress), circa 1,800 annotated entries: an indispensable companion to René Gimpel’s Journal d’un collectionneur (2011), and Diary of an Art Dealer (1963);
‘Seeing Vermeer Everywhere: the Other Geographer’ (article reviewed, and under revision for publication);
Co-chair with David Challis, the University of Melbourne, of the Translocations sub-committee of The International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA).
2011-2012, I assisted with research on Professor Bronwen Douglas's ARC Discovery project: Naming Oceania.
Publications
- Kostyrko, D 2021, 'Can a Leopard Change its Spots? René Gimpel, Art Dealer', in Adriana Turpin, Susan Bracken (eds), Art Markets, Agents and Collectors: Collecting Strategies in Europe and the United States, 1550-1950, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, New York & London: 2021, pp. 276-284.
- Kostyrko, D 2020, 'Capricious Cohorts: Rene Gimpel's Associates, Rivals, and Patrons', in Christel H. Force (ed.), Pioneers of the Global Art Market: Paris-Based Dealer Networks, 1850-1950, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London and New York, pp. 231-244.
- Kostyrko, D 2020, 'Duveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880-1940 by Charlotte Vignon', Burlington Magazine, vol. 162, no. 1402, pp. 80-81 (book review).
- Kostyrko, D., 2017, The Journal of a Transatlantic Art Dealer: Rene Gimpel (1918-1939), Harvey Miller Publishers, London/Turnhout.
- Kostyrko, Diana J., 2015, 'René Gimpel's Diary of an Art Dealer', The Burlington Magazine, vol. 157, no. 1350 (September), pp. 615-619.
- Kostyrko, D., 2013, 'The Hotel Marlin: the Manly of the South Coast', Australian Modern Design: Mid 20th Century Architecture & Design, ed. Chris Osborne (Brisbane): 24-27
- Kostyrko, D., 2010, ‘The "Art of the Possible": Negotiating Paths to Abstraction’, Art Monthly Australia, 233 (September 2010): 17-19.
- Kostyrko, D., 2010, ‘The Other Starry Night: Post–impressionists from the Orsay’, Art Monthly Australia, 228 (April 2010): 40-43.
- Kostyrko, D., 2010, '''Shadows of Accuracy and Truthfulness": The Rhetoric of Exclusion in the Case of Da Vinci's La Belle Ferronniere', in Jan Lloyd Jones & Julian Lamb (eds), Art & Authenticity, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 127-138.
- Kostyrko, D., 2009, ‘From Fragonard to Kennard: René Gimpel, art dealer’, Art Monthly Australia, 217 (March 2009): 33-35.