• In his research, Professor Schreyach attempts to understand how the visual effects of paintings are conveyed technically, operate culturally, and can be situated historically--as well as how those pictorial effects might be interpreted philosophically. Other areas of expertise include the history of photography; the relationship of art and politics, 1930-1970; methods of art history; and phenomenology.

    • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
    • M.A., University of Texas at Austin

    Book

    • 聽(New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017).
    • TOTALITY: Abstraction and Meaning in the Art of Barnett Newman聽(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023)

    Articles and Essays

    • 鈥淰isual Documentation for Barnett Newman鈥檚 Curatorial Projects, 1944-1946: Image Records for聽Pre-Columbian Stone Sculpture聽(1944) &聽Northwest Coast Indian Painting聽(1946),听Source Notes in the History of Art聽41:2 (Spring 2022): 208鈥19.
    • 鈥淪pacing Expression,鈥 in The Nature of Abstraction: Hans Hofmann, ed. Lucinda Barnes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018), 111鈥33.
    • 鈥淢oving Vision,鈥 in Anne Truitt: Paintings 1972-1991, ed. Craig Garrett (New York: Matthew Marks, 2018), 4鈥20.
    • 鈥淭he Crisis of Mural as a Painting,鈥 Getty Research Journal no. 9, Supplement 1 (November 2017): 183鈥99.
    • 鈥淩e-created Flatness: Hans Hofmann鈥檚 Concept of the Picture Plane as a Medium of Expression,鈥 Journal of Aesthetic Education 49, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 44鈥67.
    • 鈥淧re-Objective Depth in Merleau-Ponty and Jackson Pollock,鈥 Research in Phenomenology 43, no. 1 (March 2013): 49鈥70.
    • 鈥淚ntention and Interpretation in Hans Namuth鈥檚 Film, Jackson Pollock,鈥 Forum for Modern Language Studies 48, no. 4 (October 2012): 437鈥52.

    Interviews and Lectures

    • "." Terra Foundation for America Art, Paris Center. 4 November 2014.聽.
    • "."听Barnett Newman's "Formalism": A Transatlantic Dialogue with Michael Schreyach & Eva Ehninger.聽Terra Foundation for America Art, Paris Center. 30 September 2014.聽.
    • "."听Jackson Pollock's Mural: Transition, Context, Afterlife.聽Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. 6 May 2014.聽.
    • Modernism in the Visual Arts聽
    • History of Photography聽
    • Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Art聽
    • Contemporary Art Since 1945聽
    • Theories and Practice of Art History聽
    • Renaissance to Modern Art聽