Mary D. Garrard

Mary D. Garrard (* 1937 ) is an American art historian , feminist and professor emerita .

Career

Mary DuBose Garrard graduated from Tulane University and Harvard University . She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1970 . Numerous scholarships accompanied her career. She is a professor emeritus from the American University of Washington.

The publications The Power of Feminist Art developed from the collaboration with Norma Broude ; The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History and Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany , which are now classics in feminist art history.

Garrard specializes in Renaissance , Baroque and Feminist Art . She managed to add a new perspective to the reception of the Italian Baroque by making the life and work of the painter Artemisia Gentileschi known.

She was chair of the Women's Caucus for Art from 1974 to 1976 .

Publications (selection)

• Brunelleschi's Egg: Nature, Art and Gender in Renaissance Italy 2010 ISBN 978-0-5202-6152-5
• Reclaiming female agency: Feminist art history after postmodernism 2005 ISBN 978-0-5202-4252-4
• Artemisia Gentileschi Around 1622: The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity University of California Press, 2001 ISBN 978-0-5202-2841-2
• The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact with Norma Broude 1996 ISBN 978-0-8109-2659-2
• The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History 1992 ISBN 978-0064302074
• Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art Princeton University Press, 1989 ISBN 978-0-6910-4050-9
• Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany with Norma Broude 1982 ISBN 978-0-0643-0117-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Mary D. Garrard in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ American Universityː Mary D. Garrard accessed June 30, 2014
2. ↑ American Universityː Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard accessed June 30, 2014 (English)