Kay Dian Kriz

Kay Dian Kriz (born 1945) is professor emerita of art and architecture at Brown University.

[1] Kriz was a member of the faculty of Brown University from where she retired in 2013.

[3] Kriz's first book was The idea of the English landscape painter: Genius as alibi in the early nineteenth century.

Writing in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Ann Bermingham described the book as "an illuminating analysis of the place that landscape painting and landscape painters held within the evolving nationalistic discourse of aesthetics in the early nineteenth century" which explained how, "spurred by nationalist sentiments provoked by the Napoleonic wars, the English configuration of artistic "genius" was formulated in opposition to the French school of painting.

"[4] In a positive review of Kriz's Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement (2008), Christer Petley in H-Net praised Kriz for her insights into the visual representations of the West Indies and slavery between the late seventeenth century and the mid-nineteenth century".