Lisa Tickner

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Lisa Tickner (born December 21, 1944 ) is a British art historian.

Life

Lisa Tickner first studied fine arts at the Hornsey School of Art, the art historian Nikolaus Pevsner motivated her to study art history, and she received her doctorate in 1970 with a dissertation on the Arts and Crafts Movement . Tickner began in 1968 as a lecturer in art history at Hornsey College of Art, which later merged into Middlesex University . In 1992 she was appointed professor there and retired in 2007. Since 2007 she has been teaching as a visiting professor, since 2014 as an honorary professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art .

In 1977 she presented her paper The Body Politic: Female Sexuality and Women Artists Since 1970 at the conference of the Association of Art Historians (AAH) , which was subsequently published in the newly founded journal Art History . Her first book, The Spectacle of Women, on the imagery of suffragettes between 1907 and 1914 was published in 1988 and became a standard work for both the subject and the scientific method.

Tickner was a member of the English Heritage Trust's Blue Plaque Selection Committee from 2007 to 2015 . In 2008 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy . She has been a trustee of the Art Fund since 2010 .

Tickner is married to the museum director Sandy Nairne and they have two children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Kate Walker. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Housewife , in: Studio International 193, 1977, pp. 188–190.
  • Lisa Tickner, Margaret Walters: Women's images of men. Exhibition catalog, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, 1980
  • Sexuality and / in Representation: Five British Artists [1984]. In: Donald Preziosi (Ed.): The art of art history: a critical anthology . Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998 ISBN 0-19-284242-0 pp. 356-369
  • The spectacle of women: imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907-14 . London: Chatto & Windus, 1987 ISBN 0-7011-2952-2
  • Feminism, Art History, and the Gender Difference . In: Critical Reports. Ulm Association for Art and Cultural Studies. 18.1990, 2, pp. 5-36
  • Men's work? : masculinity and modernism . In: Differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies, v.4 no. 3. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1992
    • Man work? : Masculinity and modernity . In: Beate Söntgen (Ed.): Frame change . 1996, pp. 254-296
  • Modern Life & Modern Subjects: British art in the early 20th century . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000 ISBN 0-300-08350-5
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti . London: Tate, 2003
  • Mediating Generation: The Mother-Daughter Plot , in: Carol Armstrong , Catherine de Zegher (Eds.): Women Artists at the Millenium . MIT Press, 2006, pp. 84-120
  • The Kasmin Gallery, 1963-1972 . Oxford Art Journal, vol. 30 no. 2, 2007, pp. 233-268
  • Hornsey 1968: The Art School Revolution . London: Frances Lincoln, 2008
  • Bohemianism and the Cultural Field: Trilby and Tarr . In: Art History, vol. 34 no. 5 2011, pp. 978-1011
  • Celebrating women in the humanities and social sciences: Virginia Woolf and Nancy Spero . British Academy Review, 20, Summer 2012, pp. 28–31
  • with David Peters Corbett (Ed.): British Art in the Cultural Field, 1939–1969 . Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 ISBN 9781118275849

literature

  • Beate Söntgen: place of experience / place of representation: of female and male bodies with Lisa Tickner . In: Critical Reports. Ulm Association for Art and Cultural Studies. 26.1998, 3, pp. 34-42

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personal data
SURNAME Tickner, Lisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British art historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1944