Susan Dackerman (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College) specializes in Early Modern Northern European art, with a focus on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century print culture. Her research investigates how printed images produce meaning and knowledge, especially in relationship to their materiality, manufacture, and physical presence. She currently is working on an ecological history of print matrices – woodblocks, copperplates, and lithographic limestones; questioning how the choice of their use was shaped by environmental conditions, as well as how the use of metal, wood, and stone was informed by contemporary conceptions of the natural world.

Dackerman has held posts at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums, Getty Research Institute, and Stanford University.

Books

Selected Publications

• Dürer’s Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East, Princeton University Press, 2024
• Jasper Johns: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Monotypes, with Jennifer Roberts, New York: Matthew Marks Gallery and Yale University Press, 2018
• Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, Harvard Art Museums, Susan Dackerman, ed.,Cambridge: Harvard Art Museums with Yale University Press, 2015
• Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Harvard Art Museums, Susan Dackerman, ed., Cambridge: Harvard Art Museums with Yale University Press, 2011
• Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance and Baroque Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts, Susan Dackerman, ed., University Park: The Baltimore Museum of Art and Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002