Mary Garrard
Mary Garrard | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1937 (age 86–87) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Art historian |
| Awards | Lifetime Achievement Award, Women's Caucus for Art (2005) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Johns Hopkins University Harvard University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Feminist art history |
| Institutions | American University |
| Main interests | Artemisia Gentileschi |
| Notable works | Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (1989) The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact (1996) |
Mary DuBose Garrard (born 1937) is an American art historian and emerita professor at American University.[1][2] She is recognized as "one of the founders of feminist art theory"[2] and is particularly known for her work on the Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi.[3]
Education
[edit]Garrard earned her B.A. degree at H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in 1958, her M.A. degree at Harvard University in 1960, and her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1970.[4][5] writing her dissertation on "The Early Sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino—Florence and Rome."[6][7]
Work
[edit]From 1974 to 1976, Garrard served as the second national president of the Women’s Caucus for Art.[1]
Garrard's feminist scholarship began with articles in the 1970s, including "Of Men, Women and Art: Some Historical Reflections" (Art Journal, 1976) and "Feminism: Has It Changed Art History?" (Heresies, 1978).[1]
With Norma Broude, Garrard co-authored and edited several books on art history and curated an exhibition, Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators, in 2007 at the Katzen Arts Center.[8]
Selected publications
[edit]- Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), ISBN 9780691002859[3]
- Artemisia Gentileschi Around 1622: The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity (University of California Press, 2001), ISBN 9780520228412
- Brunelleschi's Egg: Nature, Art, and Gender in Renaissance Italy (University of California Press, 2010), ISBN 9780520261525
- Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe (Reaktion, 2020), ISBN 9781789142020
With Norma Broude
[edit]- Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany (Harper & Row, 1982), ISBN 9780064301176
- The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History (Icon Editions, 1992), ISBN 9780064302074
- The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact (Harry N. Abrams, 1996), ISBN 9780810926592
- Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History after Postmodernism (University of California Press, 2005), ISBN 9780520242524
- Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators (American University, 2007)[8]
Awards
[edit]- Lifetime Achievement Award, Women’s Caucus for Art, 2005
- Faculty Legacy Award, American University, voted by CAS alumni as professor who had greatest influence on their lives, 2002
- Award from College Art Association, Committee on Women, for “pioneering feminist scholarship” (with Norma Broude), 2000
- Honorary doctorate of humane letters, awarded by Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, 1999
- Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award (with Norma Broude), 1995
- Mid-Career Achievement Award, National Women’s Caucus for Art, 1991
- AU College of Arts and Sciences award, Outstanding Scholarship, Research & Other Professional Contributions, 1990
- AU College of Arts and Sciences award, Outstanding Teaching, 1989[4]
Grants and sponsored research
[edit]- American University Mellon Fund Travel Award, September 1998
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship, 1991–92
- J. Paul Getty Foundation, subvention to Princeton University Press to support publication of Artemisia Gentileschi, 1987
- Mina Shaughnessy Scholars Program Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, Department of Education, 1982
- American Association of University Women Fellowship, 1978–79
- American Council of Learned Societies, 1978–79
- Fulbright scholar, Italy, 1963–64[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Love, Barbara J., ed. (2006). Feminists Who Changed America 1963–1975. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0252031892.
- ^ a b Gopnik, Blake (5 October 2008). "Expanded Text of Mary Garrard Interview". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
- ^ a b Pollock, Griselda (1990). "Rev. of Garrard, Artemisia Gentileschi". The Art Bulletin. 72 (3): 499–505. doi:10.2307/3045754. JSTOR 3045754.
- ^ a b c "Faculty Profile: Mary Garrard". American University. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- ^ The Johns Hopkins University Conferring of Degrees at the Close of the Ninety-fourth Academic Year. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Office of the University Registrar. 15 July 1970 [27 May 1970]. p. 49.
- ^ "Doctors of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.". The Johns Hopkins University, Conferring of Degrees at the Close of the Ninety-Fourth Academic Year, May 24, 1970, Keyser Quadrangle, Homewood, Baltimore, Maryland (PDF). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University. 1970. p. 50.
- ^ Mary DuBose Garrard. "The Early Sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino: Florence and Rome." PhD diss.The Johns Hopkins University, 1970.
- ^ a b Dawson, Jessica (18 November 2007). "AU Museum Gives Women's Work the 'Space' It Deserves". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
External links
[edit]- Mary Garrard at American University
- Norma Broude and Mary Garrard papers, 1970-2000 at the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art
- Mary Garrard's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
Categories:
- Living people
- American art historians
- American women art historians
- American University faculty
- Harvard University alumni
- Tulane University alumni
- Johns Hopkins University alumni
- 1937 births
- 20th-century American historians
- 21st-century American historians
- 20th-century American women writers
- 20th-century American writers
- Feminist theorists
- Feminist historians
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century American writers