Ghislaine Wood

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Ghislaine Wood (* 1950 in the United Kingdom ) is a British art historian .

life and work

Ghislaine Wood attended Dean Close School in Cheltenham and then studied art history at the University of Manchester . She specialized in 20th century art and design and was a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1993 to 2005 . In 2014 she was appointed Assistant Director of the Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia in Norwich .

Wood curated several major exhibitions such as Ocean Liners: Speed ​​And Style (2018), British Design 1948–2012 (2012), Surreal things: Surrealism and design (2007), Art Deco 1910-1939 (2003) and Art Nouveau 1890–1914 ( 2000).

Her publications include:

  • Art Nouveau and the Erotic. V&A Publications, London 2000, ISBN 978-1-85177-295-7 , 96 pp.
  • Essential Art Deco. V&A Publications, London 2003, ISBN 978-1-85177-389-3 , 96 pp.
  • Art Deco 1910-1939. With Charlotte Benton and Tim Benton. Bulfinch Press, New York City 2003, ISBN 978-0-82122-834-0 , 464 pp.
  • The Surreal Body: Fetish and Fashion. Harry N. Abrams, New York City 2007, ISBN 978-1-85177-502-6 , 96 pp.
  • Surreal things: Surrealism and design. V&A Publications, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-85177-500-2 , 362 pp.
  • British design from 1948 innovation in the Modern age. With Christopher Breward and Fiona Fisher. Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-47425-622-3 , V&A Publications, London 2012, 352 pp.
  • Ocean Liners: Speed ​​and Style. With Daniel Finamore. V&A Publishing, London 2018, ISBN 978-1-85177-949-9 , 288 pp.
  • Art Deco by the Sea. Sainsbury Center, Norwich 2020, ISBN 978-1-91613-360-0 , 160 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ghislaine Wood. In: linkedIn .
  2. ^ New Deputy Director joins UEA's Sainsbury Center. In: Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, July 16, 2014.
  3. ↑ Curator Talk: Ocean Liners: Speed ​​and Style. In: Victoria and Albert Museum , 2018.
  4. ↑ Christopher Breward, Fiona Fisher, Ghislaine Wood: British Design: Tradition and Modernity after 1948. Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-47425-622-3 , p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Wood, Ghislaine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH United Kingdom