John Hatch
Associate Professor
Visual Arts
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr. Hatch’s research has focused on the interstices of art and science, particularly in the twentieth century, with a side interest in the work of Francs Bacon. However, his first published articles looked at geometry in Greek architecture and Keplerian astronomy and religious mysticism in the churches of the Baroque architect Francesco Borromini. The latter, originally appeared in 2002, was reprinted in 2015 in a two-volume anthology on architecture and mathematics. His numerous articles dealing with science and modern art have ranged from the influence of wave patterns and Machian epistemology on the paintings of František Kupka to the adaptation of the relativistic theories of Henri Poincaré, Hendrik Lorentz, and Albert Einstein in the art and architecture of El Lissitzky and Theo van Doesburg. Of late, Hatch’s attention has turned to astronomy, accompanied by the publication of studies on works by Robert Smithson, Max Ernst, Anselm Kiefer, Shi Zhiying, and, most recently, the German photographer Thomas Ruff.