Dr. John G. Hatch is Associate Dean (Academic) for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts where he has taught modern art history and theory since 1994. He received a B.A. in Economics in 1982 but made a radical career move in 1985 that culminated with a Ph.D. in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex in 1995. His research and teaching interests include examining the intersections of art and science, Dada and Neo-Dada manifestations, post-WWII art (specifically the work of Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana, and Arte Povera), and 20th-century Neo-Baroque manifestations. The result has yielded publications on the work of Max Ernst, Francis Bacon, Cindy Sherman, Robert Rauschenberg, Frantisek Kupka, to name a few. Dr. Hatch has a particular fascination for the influence of the physical sciences on art and architecture, ranging from examining the use of Keplerian cosmology in the 17th-century buildings of Francesco Borromini to looking at the impact of entropy on the earthworks and writings of the American artist Robert Smithson.
20th-Century Art
Nature, Entropy, and Robert Smithson's Utopian Vision of a Culture of Decay, Meanings of Abstract Art: Between Nature and Theory (2012)
Seeing and Seen: Acts of the Voyeur in the Works of Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives (2012)
Seeing and Seen: Acts of the Voyeur in the Paintings of Francis Bacon, Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education) (2011)
There are a number of characters in Bacon's paintings who seem strangely out of place,...
Modern Earthworks and Their Cosmic Embrace, The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena VI: Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, Vol. 441 (2011)
Convergences Between Art and Physics, Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education) (2010)
Art and Science
Modern Earthworks and Their Cosmic Embrace, The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena VI: Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, Vol. 441 (2011)
Convergences Between Art and Physics, Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education) (2010)
Some Adaptations of Relativity in the 1920s and the Birth of Abstract Architecture, Nexus Network Journal (2010)
John Hatch examines the friendship between Theo Van Doesburg and El Lissitzky, which was fuelled...
Desire, Heavenly Bodies, and a Surrealist's Fascination with the Celestial Theatre, Culture and Cosmos (2004)
In 1922, the German Surrealist artist Max Ernst produced a montage work that included a...
The Science behind Francesco Borromini's Divine Geometry, Nexus IV: Architecture and Mathematics (2002)
Architecture and Science
Some Adaptations of Relativity in the 1920s and the Birth of Abstract Architecture, Nexus Network Journal (2010)
John Hatch examines the friendship between Theo Van Doesburg and El Lissitzky, which was fuelled...
The Science behind Francesco Borromini's Divine Geometry, Nexus IV: Architecture and Mathematics (2002)
Nature's Laws and the Changing Image of Reality in Art and Physics: A Study of the Impact of Modern Physics on the Visual Arts, 1910-1940, Visual Arts Publications (1995)
Post World War II
Nature, Entropy, and Robert Smithson's Utopian Vision of a Culture of Decay, Meanings of Abstract Art: Between Nature and Theory (2012)
Seeing and Seen: Acts of the Voyeur in the Works of Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives (2012)
Modern Earthworks and Their Cosmic Embrace, The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena VI: Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, Vol. 441 (2011)
British Art
Seeing and Seen: Acts of the Voyeur in the Works of Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives (2012)
Seeing and Seen: Acts of the Voyeur in the Paintings of Francis Bacon, Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education) (2011)
There are a number of characters in Bacon's paintings who seem strangely out of place,...