{"id":2508,"date":"2020-03-09T07:36:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T07:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearts.hku.hk\/dev-finearts3\/?page_id=2508"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:45:17","slug":"monica-lee-steinberg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/people\/monica-lee-steinberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Monica Lee STEINBERG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-top:20px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:0px;\"><h1 class=\"title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:40;line-height:1.6;\"><h1>Monica Lee STEINBERG<\/h1><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:17px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_6 1_6 fusion-one-sixth fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:16.666666666667%;width:calc(16.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.16666666666667 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-dropshadow imageframe-1 hover-type-none\" style=\"border-radius:50%;-webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);box-shadow: 3px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"Steinberg-150&#215;150\" src=\"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Steinberg-150x150-1.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-6156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Steinberg-150x150-1-66x66.png 66w, https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Steinberg-150x150-1.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h5>Assistant Professor \u52a9\u7406\u6559\u6388<br \/>\nAmerican Studies, School of Modern Languages and Cultures<\/h5>\n<p>Tel: 3917-4253<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:mstein@hku.hk\">mstein@hku.hk<\/a><br \/>\nOffice: Room 5.11, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 10% 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p data-fontsize=\"16\" data-lineheight=\"24\"><strong>PhD<em> The Graduate Center of The City University of New York<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Monica Lee\u00a0Steinberg teaches classes on modern and contemporary art as it intersects with technology, law, and the market, and student assignments frequently involve the realization of creative projects. Her research considers art, new media, and law of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, with a specific focus on fictional attribution, crime, and humor in a global context. Her writing has appeared in journals such as:\u00a0<i>Source: Notes in the History of Art<\/i>\u00a0|\u00a0<i>Crime, Media, Culture<\/i>\u00a0|\u00a0<i>Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art<\/i>\u00a0|\u00a0<i>Grey Room<\/i>\u00a0|\u00a0<i>Art Journal<\/i>\u00a0|\u00a0<i>Art History<\/i>\u00a0|\u00a0<i>American Art<\/i>\u00a0|\u00a0<i>Oxford Art Journal<\/i>\u00a0|\u00a0<i>Archives of American Art Journal<\/i>. She has also contributed to exhibition catalogues such as: The University of Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum\u2019s\u00a0<i>Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest<\/i>\u00a0| The Venice Biennale\u2019s<i>\u00a0Love Me, Love Me Not: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbours<\/i>\u00a0| The Imago Mundi Collection\u2019s\u00a0<i>Azerbaijan: The colors of wind and fire<\/i>.<\/div>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><\/div>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">For a list of publications, digital humanities projects, and other endeavors, see:\u00a0<u><a id=\"OWAdd0f3e81-a5c0-c1dc-44f6-aca91a6fbddc\" class=\"x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"http:\/\/msteinberg.art\/\" href=\"http:\/\/msteinberg.art\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\">msteinberg.art<\/a><\/u><\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-tabs fusion-tabs-1 clean vertical-tabs icon-position-left\"><style type=\"text\/css\">#wrapper .fusion-tabs.fusion-tabs-1.clean .nav-tabs li a.tab-link{border-color:rgba(181,159,135,0.25);}.fusion-tabs.fusion-tabs-1 .nav-tabs li a.tab-link{background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.1);}.fusion-tabs.fusion-tabs-1 .nav-tabs li.active a.tab-link,.fusion-tabs.fusion-tabs-1 .nav-tabs li.active a.tab-link:hover,.fusion-tabs.fusion-tabs-1 .nav-tabs li.active a.tab-link:focus{background-color:rgba(181,159,135,0.25);}.fusion-tabs.fusion-tabs-1 .nav-tabs li a:hover{background-color:rgba(181,159,135,0.25);border-top-color:rgba(181,159,135,0.25);}.fusion-tabs.fusion-tabs-1 .tab-pane{background-color:rgba(181,159,135,0.25);}.fusion-tabs.fusion-tabs-1 .nav,.fusion-tabs.fusion-tabs-1 .nav-tabs,.fusion-tabs.fusion-tabs-1 .tab-content .tab-pane{border-color:rgba(181,159,135,0.25);}<\/style><div class=\"nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\"><li class=\"active\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-15aa20b9f11c76a2433\" aria-selected=\"true\" id=\"fusion-tab-areasofexpertise\" href=\"#tab-15aa20b9f11c76a2433\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\"><i class=\"fontawesome-icon fa-star fas\" aria-hidden=\"true\" style=\"font-size:22px;\"><\/i>Areas of Expertise<\/h4><\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-fcd582396939b370b04\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"fusion-tab-currentresearchinterest\" href=\"#tab-fcd582396939b370b04\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\"><i class=\"fontawesome-icon fa-keyboard fas\" aria-hidden=\"true\" style=\"font-size:22px;\"><\/i>Current Research Interest<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-content\"><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\"><li class=\"active\"><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-15aa20b9f11c76a2433\" aria-selected=\"true\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-areasofexpertise\" href=\"#tab-15aa20b9f11c76a2433\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\"><i class=\"fontawesome-icon fa-star fas\" aria-hidden=\"true\" style=\"font-size:22px;\"><\/i>Areas of Expertise<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix in active\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-areasofexpertise\" id=\"tab-15aa20b9f11c76a2433\">\n<p><strong>Modern and contemporary art<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"nav fusion-mobile-tab-nav\"><ul class=\"nav-tabs\"><li><a class=\"tab-link\" data-toggle=\"tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"tab-fcd582396939b370b04\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"mobile-fusion-tab-currentresearchinterest\" href=\"#tab-fcd582396939b370b04\"><h4 class=\"fusion-tab-heading\"><i class=\"fontawesome-icon fa-keyboard fas\" aria-hidden=\"true\" style=\"font-size:22px;\"><\/i>Current Research Interest<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tab-pane fade fusion-clearfix\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-labelledby=\"fusion-tab-currentresearchinterest\" id=\"tab-fcd582396939b370b04\">\n<p><strong>Art and pseudonymity, art and law, art and new media<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\"><h3>Selected Publications<\/h3>\n<p><i data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Lives of the Imaginary Artists in Cold War California<\/i> (University of Chicago Press, 2025). <a title=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/L\/bo249443257.html\" href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/L\/bo249443257.html\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/L\/bo249443257.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aesthetic Incongruity: Art and Humor in Post-Independence Azerbaijan,&#8221; in <em>Humor in Global Contemporary Art<\/em>, ed. Mette Gieskes and Gregory Williams (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024), 295\u2013311.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Boggs Bills: Contrast Agents in the Art Market and in Law, or How to Make Money as an Artist,&#8221;<em> Crime, Media, Culture<\/em> 20, no. 2 (April 2024): 135\u2013162. Online First: August 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Extralegal Portraiture: Surveillance, between Privacy and Expression,\u201d <em>Grey Room<\/em>\u00a087 (Spring 2022): 66\u201399.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoercive Disobedience: Art and Simulated Transgression,\u201d\u00a0<em>Art Journal<\/em>\u00a080, no. 3 (Fall 2021): 78\u201399.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinancial True Crime: Art, Para-journalism, and Data-Driven Storytelling,\u201d\u00a0<em>Art History<\/em>\u00a044, no. 2 (April 2021): 256\u2013284.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUncivil Obedience: Lowell Darling Follows the Law,\u201d\u00a0<em>American Art<\/em>\u00a034, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 112\u2013135.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Im)Personal Matters: Intimate Strangers and Affective Market Economies,\u201d\u00a0<em>Oxford Art Journal<\/em>\u00a042, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 45\u201367.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNaming: Heteronymy and the Imaginary Artists of George Herms,\u201d\u00a0<em>American Art<\/em>\u00a032, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 24\u201351.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-4 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-5\"><h3>Past Courses<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amstudy.hku.hk\/course\/AMER2058.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AMER2058<\/a><\/strong> Art and law in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMER2064<\/strong> Art, time, and new media<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMER2065<\/strong> Radical artistic practice in the shadow of Hollywood<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:30px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single\" style=\"border-color:rgba(181,159,135,0.25);border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"><h5>PROFILE @ HKU Library<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hub.hku.hk\/cris\/rp\/rp02559\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HKU Scholars Hub research page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1123-4294\">Open Researcher and Contributor ID<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-4 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":113,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2508","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13100,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2508\/revisions\/13100"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}