Benjamin Benus
Associate Professor of Design History
Education
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
M.S., Pratt Institute
B.F.A., Pratt Institute.
Departments
- College of Music and Media
- Design
Bio
Benjamin Benus specializes in the history of modern art, with a focus on twentieth-century graphic design in Europe and the United States. His scholarship, which examines historical connections between modernist design and data visualization, has been supported with research fellowships from the Vienna Circle Institute at the University of Vienna; the Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami; and the Newberry Library in Chicago.
He is the author of Herbert Bayer鈥檚 World Geo-Graphic Atlas and Information Design at Midcentury (RIT Press) and co-curator of the related exhibition, 鈥淐oncept of a Visualist: Herbert Bayer鈥檚 World Geo-Graphic Atlas,鈥 at the Aspen Institute鈥檚 Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies in Aspen, Colorado.
Publications
Herbert Bayer鈥檚 World Geo-Graphic Atlas and Information Design at Midcentury. Rochester, NY: RIT Press, 2023.
鈥淢odernist Graphics, New Typography, and the Design of Identity in the First Czechoslovak Republic.鈥 In Design and Heritage: The Construction of Identity and Belonging, edited by Rebecca Houze and Grace Lees-Maffei, 229鈥241. New York: Routledge, 2021.
鈥淥tto Neurath鈥檚 Social History of Art.鈥 In Creative Collaboration in Art, Practice, Research and Pedagogy, edited by M. Kathryn Shields and Sunny Spillane, 137鈥164. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
鈥淭he Vienna Method in Amsterdam: Peter Alma鈥檚 Office for Pictorial Statistics鈥 (coauthored with Wim Jansen). Design Issues 32, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 19鈥36.
鈥淔igurative Constructivism and Sociological Graphics.鈥 In Isotype: Design and Contexts, 1925鈥1971, edited by Christopher Burke, Eric Kindel, and Sue Walker, 216鈥248. London: Hyphen Press, 2013.