Benjamin Benus is an associate professor of art and design history at Loyola University New Orleans. He specializes in the history of modern art, with a focus on 20th 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 Vienna Circle Institute at the University of Vienna, Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami, and Newberry Library in Chicago. Benus is the author of Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas and Information Design at Midcentury and co-curator of the exhibition “Concept of a Visualist: Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas” at the Aspen Institute’s Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies. He completed his PhD in art history at University of Maryland, College Park.
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