Dr. M.H. (Marjan) Groot

Position:
  • Lecturer
Expertise:
  • Art history
  • 19th and 20th centuries
  • Dutch applied art 1890-1940


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2749
E-Mail: m.h.groot@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for Cultural Disciplines, KG Kunstnijverheid
Office Address: Johan Huizingagebouw
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden
Room number 2.18b
Personal Homepage: www.marjangroot-homepage.nl


Fields of interest

Marjan Groot's field of interest includes all forms of decorative art and design: the history of furniture, metal work, ceramics, glass, graphic design, textile design, etc. She is a generalist as far as the history of all European Decorative Art is concerned and interested in different historical and contemporary viewpoints with respect to artifacts and designs. In this field of research, she aims to combine historical knowledge and viewpoints with developments in contemporary society and interdisciplinary connections between visual art, architecture and the art of non-western cultures.

Research

Recent research and publications deal with political and religious conflicts between western and non-western cultures through artifacts; with the relation between art, design and nature and biotechnology; and with the blurring of boundaries between decorative arts, folk art and gender constructions. Highly specialised art-historical research concerns decorative art in the Netherlands between 1880 and 1940. Her recent book, Vrouwen in toegepaste kunst en industriële vormgeving in Nederland 1880-1940, gives a first historical overview of women designers and gender constructions in the Netherlands on the basis of unpublished source material. Older publications concern iconography and iconology of animals in decorative art, and commercial enterprises and consumerism in decorative arts and design.

Curriculum Vitae

Marjan Groot (1959) has a propaedeuse in Cultural Antropology from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, a upper secondary teaching qualification from the Amsterdam Academy for Art and Design, an MA in Art History from the University of Amsterdam and University of Leiden, and a doctorate from the University of Leiden. She specialized in the History of Decorative Art and Design and gives lectures and seminars on European decorative art and design at the University of Leiden.

Teaching activities

- First-year BA Introduction course on the History of European decorative arts and design 500-2000
- Second-year BA Specialised thematic courses on decorative arts and design
- Second-year BA General Art historical excursions to European cities ( Paris, Berlin)
- Third-year BA Introductory course for the minor Art History, a series of lectures on art historical subjects of different ages around art historical concepts and approaches
- Third-year BA Research seminar on various subjects and themes, such as Decorative Art and commerce; Sources of decorative arts and design
- Third-year BA Methodology seminar on research methodologies and viewpoints for research on decorative arts and design
- Mphil Research seminar on Design and culture
- Guest lectures on art in thematic series on postcolonial literature, primitivism

Publications

Most recent publications

‘Nature? en een vloertapijt. Over de relatie tussen kunst en natuur’, Entomologische berichten 68 (2008) 1, 2-11.

Bangelaer, bungalow en de reikwijdte van ‘invloed’, in: Annemiek Ouwerkerk (ed), Het Nederlandse binnenhuis gaat zich te buiten. Internationale invloeden op de Nederlandse wooncultuur (Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 14), Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2007, 342-368.

'Underneath a yellow fleece: a Daily Record of the Knights’ Hall', in: Atelier Rijksbouwmeester. Tanja Karreman, Janine Schulze, Huib Haye van der Werf (red.), Present. Kunst bij rijksgebouwen 2004-2006, Rotterdam: episode publishers, 2007, 428-429.

Vrouwen in de vormgeving in Nederland 1880-1940, Rotterdam: Uitgeverij 010, 2007 (598 p.).

 ‘Frits Lensvelt als ontwerper van lampen en als binnenhuisarchitect’, in: Licht als Leidraad. Leven en werk van Frits Lensvelt (1886-1945), Assen: Waanders, 2007, 77-136. (with Henriette Wijmenga)

‘Cell and Womb as Metaphors for Dwellings’. Paper for the Design History Society Conference September 2006 in Delft, NL. Published on Conference CD-Rom, December 2006.

‘Crossing the Borderlines and Moving the Boundaries. ‘High’ Arts and Crafts, Cross-culturalism, Folk Art and Gender’, Journal of Design History vol. 19 no 3 (2006), pp. 121-136. [Also online]

Biography of Elis. M. Rogge for Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland 6, online May 10, 2006
http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn6/rogge.

‘Teppichschoner en Crying Carpet. Het oosterse tapijt als teken’, Kunstlicht 26 (2005), 3/4, pp. 46-55.

Marjan Groot, ‘Vrouwen in de vormgeving’, Historica  28 (februari 2005) 1, 16-18.

Marjan Groot, Hanneke Oosterhof, Textielkunstenaressen art nouveau art deco 1900-1930, Tilburg (Nederlands Textielmuseum) 2005. Publicatie bij een tentoonstelling.

Last Modified: 08-11-2011