ROBERT BELTON
Dr. Robert Belton
Associate Professor, Art History
Arts Building, ART 148, 1147 Research Road
University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus
Kelowna, BC
V1V 1V7
Phone: 250.807.9342
Fax: 250.807.9900
E-mail: robert.belton@ubc.ca 
A wide selection of Dr. Belton's music can be found online at www.reverbnation.com/sharpeitomatoes.
Credentials: PhD, U of Toronto; BFA, U of Western Ontario
Expertise: Art theory, criticism, and historiography; modern and contemporary European and North American art and architecture; cognitive science and art; film and cultural studies; experimental music.
Additional Information:
Dr. Robert Belton served as the first Dean of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies from July 1, 2005 until June 30, 2010. Dr. Belton had earlier served as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Okanagan University College, as well as the first Provost of its College of Arts and Sciences. Prior to these administrative roles, Dr. Belton taught courses in art history and theory at OUC, Queen's, Western, and McMaster, where he received the Alma Mater Society Frank Knox Award for Teaching Excellence and the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society Award for Teaching Excellence.
Dr. Belton's research has focused on Surrealist art and film, Canadian art and architecture, and issues of art theory. In addition to numerous articles in journals and anthologies, he has published The Beribboned Bomb: The Image of Woman in Male Surrealist Art; Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture; The Theatre of the Self: The Life and Art of William Ronald; and Art: The World of Art, from Aboriginal to American Pop, Renaissance Masters to Postmodernism. These works have been cited in thirty-two countries on six continents in fifteen languages.
Dr. Belton has served on numerous boards and community organizations. Currently , he is a member of the Board of Directors of the British Columbia Achievement Foundation, for whom he also chairs the subcommittees that offer awards for in B.C. aboriginal art and applied art and design.
Courses Taught:
- 19th Century Art
- 20th Century Art
- Aspects of the Art of the Americas
- Art Theory and Criticism
- Canadian Art
- Contemporary Art
- Contemporary Canadian Art
- Design History, Theory, Criticism
- Eighteenth Century French Art
- European Baroque Art in the Seventeenth Century
- Experimental Music and Sound Art
- Film Studies
- Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
- Marxism and Impressionism
- Methodological Alternatives to the Study of Michelangelo
- Modern Architecture
- Popular Music and Visual Culture
- Popular Visual Culture
- Romanticism and Realism
- Postmodern Architecture
- Surrealism in Visual Arts, Film and Literature
Current Research Interests:
Surrealist film; Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo; Man Ray' film L'Etoile de mer.
Recent Publications:
“Thinking Higher Thoughts: A Review of Lance J. Rips’Linesof Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology.” PsycCritiques. Submitted 31March 2011.
“Why Duchamp Matters.” In Ihor Holubizky, et al. Christos Dikeakos: PatisserieDuchamp/Puis-je fumer. McMaster Museum of Art, 27 January–26 March 2011,unpaginated.
Belton,Robert, and Bernd Kersten, (Universität Bern). “Vision and Visions in Pierodella Francesca's Legend of the TrueCross.” Glimpse: The Art and Scienceof Seeing 6 (Summer 2010): 36–50.
“William Ronald: The Fisherman.” CanadianPost-War and Contemporary Art. Vancouver: Heffel Fine Art Auction House, 25November 2010, 30–31.
“William Ronald: Untitled.” Vancouver: HeffelFine Art Auction House, 26 May 2010, 42–43
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“Basic but Fulfilling: Kellogg’s Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology.” PsycCRITIQUES 53.3 (2008): DigitalObject Identifier: 10.1037/a0010428.
“Here’s Looking at You: Visual Art and RecentPsychoanalytical Theories.” PsycCRITIQUES52.33 (2007): Accession Number: psq-2006-3723-1-2. Digital Object Identifier:10.1037/a0006877.
“William Ronald: Venus.” Vancouver: Heffel FineArt Auction House, 26 May 2010, 44–45.
Kersten. Bernd,and Robert Belton. “Inconsistent Perspective and Emotional Expression in ArtWorks.” Perception 36.supplement(2007): 169.
“Response [to Efrat Biberman’s ‘Remembering theFuture: On the Return of Memories in the Visual Field].’” Time and Memory. Eds. Jo Alyson Parker, Michael Crawford, and PaulHarris. Leiden: Brill, 2006, 275–76.
“Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity (2002).” University of Toronto Quarterly. Letters in Canada 2003. 74.1 (winter 2004–5): 548–50.
“Naomi Sawelson-Gorse, ed. Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender, and Identity (1998).” Woman's Art Journal (Spring–Summer 2001): 51–53.
“Robert Storr, Paulo Herkenhoff, and Allan Schwartzman. Louise Bourgeois (2003); Mignon Nixon, Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art (2005); Mieke Bal, Louise Bourgeois’ Spider: The Architecture of Art-Writing (2001).” Woman’s Art Journal 27.1 (Spring/summer 2006): 50–54.
Recent Presentations:
2012-07-06: Organizer, " Multidisciplinarity or Non-Overlapping Magisteria: Is a Real Convergence of Interests Possible in Art-Speak?" International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Nicosia.
2011-10-29: "Hitting a Wall: The International Failure of Canadian Identity in Visual Culture." Universities Art Association of Canada, Ottawa.
2009-02-29: "Urbanity and Rurality in Man Ray's L'Etoile de mer (1929)." College Art Association, Los Angeles.
2008-07-10: "Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral." Internationale Gesellschaft fur Empirische Literaturwissenschaft, Memphis.
2007–08–31: Presenter, “Things Hanging and Things Standing: A Rereading of Hitchcock's Vertigo.” Universities Art Association Conference, Waterloo.
2007–08–31: Co-author, “Inconsistent Perspective and Emotional Expression in Art.” (Presenter: Bernd Kersten, Institut für Psychologie, Universität Bern, Switzerland.) European Conference on Visual Perception, Arezzo, Italy.
2007–08–27: Presenter, “The Use-Value of ‘Incorrect’ Perspective in the Politics of Renaissance Patronage.” (Co-author: Bernd Kersten, Institut für Psychologie, Universität Bern, Switzerland.) Renaissance Vision: Dialogues Between Arts and Science, Arezzo, Italy.
2007–02–24: Keynote Speaker, “The Correlation of Interpretive Bias and Interpretive Behaviour.” Art Appreciation and Criticism Workshop, Universität Bern, Switzerland.
2006–11–03: Presenter, “Man Ray’s L’étoile de mer (1928): Intertextuality, Interdisciplinarity and a Research Team Approach to Art History.” Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, Halifax.
2005–08–27: Moderator and Commentator, “Reports from Canada: Practice and Place,” Comox Valley Art Gallery and North Island College, Courtenay, B.C.
2002–11–02: Presenter, “Sights of Resistance in the Classroom: Teaching a Survey of Canadian Visual Culture.” Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, Calgary.
2002–08–25: Presenter, “Something about Barbie and Ken: Historical Specificity and the Range of Sight,” and Commentator, “What were you thinking? Post-Modernism and Constituency,” Comox Valley Art Gallery and North Island College, Courtenay, B.C.
2002–04–28: Keynote Speaker, “Good Writing about Art: Likeness, Quality and Repleteness.” Canadian Association of Gallery Educators, Calgary, Alberta.
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11/18/2011 10:04:05 AM
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