A biography of William A Camfield

Abstract

William Camfield is Joseph and Joanna N. Mullen Professor of Art History Emeritus at Rice University. He came to the University in 1969 from the University of St. Thomas and was chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Rice from 1970-72, and again from 1999-2001. He retired in 2002. Professor Camfield’s areas of expertise and research interest are primarily concentrated on Modern and Contemporary art, with particular emphasis on the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. He is the author of the monographs Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp – Fountain, Max Ernst : Dada and the dawn of Surrealism, a number of individual chapters in edited collections, as well as several exhibition catalogues.