Helen Gardner

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Helen Gardner, drawn by J. Burlinson

Helen Gardner (born March 17, 1878 in Manchester (New Hampshire) , † June 4, 1946 in Chicago ) was an American art historian.

Life

Gardner was the daughter of a tailor and moved the family to Chicago in 1891, where they attended Hyde Park High School. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in Latin and Ancient Greek in 1901, then was a teacher and eventually assistant to the headmaster at Brooks Classical School. In 1915 she continued her studies at the University of Chicago, this time in art history with a master’s degree in 1918 (with a university scholarship), but she attended other courses until her PhD in 1922. Her masters -Work was A critical chart of Florentine painting of the fifteenth century . Since 1919 she was responsible for the photography department (and image carriers for the Magic Lantern ) of the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago . There she also gave lectures on art history from 1920 and in 1922 she gave up her job as a librarian to teach art history full-time. In 1929 she became an assistant professor at the Art Institute and in 1934 professor and head of the art history department. She retired in 1944 after being diagnosed with breast cancer. She died in 1946 of complications from pneumonia.

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Her textbook of art history Art through the ages was long used in American schools and, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, was an exhaustive description of art history that set standards. The book also pioneered non-Western art. The first edition was published in 1926, the second edition, which was greatly expanded in 1936, and it also published a third edition, which appeared posthumously in 1948. 260,000 copies of the first two editions were sold. It earned her a great reputation as soon as it was published, and in 1927 she was invited as a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and in 1928 at the University of Chicago. In 1932 a book for art educators Understanding the Arts followed . A planned book on American art, including Indian and pre-Columbian art, could no longer be realized.

Fonts

  • Art through the ages, Harcourt Brace 1926
    • The book was published in 2008 by Cengage Learning in the adaptation of Fred S. Kleiner as Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective and a paperback edition in 2010 as Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Concise History of Western Art (Wadsworth Publ.)
  • Understanding the arts, Harcourt Brace 1932

literature

  • Themina Kader: The Bible of Art History: Gardner's Art Through the Ages , Studies in Art Education, Volume 41, 2000, pp. 164–177.
  • Harold Allen: "Helen Gardner: Quiet Rebel," in: Lisa Stone, Jam Zanzi, Sacred Spaces and Other Places: a Guide to Grottos and Sculptural Environments in the Upper Midwest. Chicago: School of the Art Institute of Chicago Press, 1993
  • Shelly Errington: The Death of Authentic: Primitive Art and Other Tales of Progress . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Finally, it was replaced by the 1962 History of Art by HW Janson in the USA, but revisions continued to appear
personal data
SURNAME Gardner, Helen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester (New Hampshire)
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1946
Place of death Chicago