Alicia Craig Faxon is an American art historian, author, curator and educator. She is Professor Emerita at

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, where she also served as Chair of the Department of Art and Music. Faxon also taught at

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, the New England School of Art and the

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. She has curated several museum exhibitions, and served as acting director of the

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. She authored several books on art history, as well as writing for the popular press, including ''

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''. Her archive and papers (–2014) are held in the collection of Vassar University Special Collections Library.

Publications

Faxon has authored several books including ''Dante Gabriel Rossetti'', Abbeville Press, that was reviewed in

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and

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. Other books include ''Self-Portraits by Women Painters'' (coauthored with

Liana Cheney Liana De Girolami Cheney (born 1942) is an art historian, administrator, author, curator, and educator. She is the Founder of the Society of Renaissance Art History. Early life and education Cheney was born in Milan, Italy. She has a B.S. and an ...

, and Kathleen Russo), published by Ashgate Press in 2000, and ''

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Art in its European Context'', and ''Women and Jesus''. She contributed several entries to the ''Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art'', including entries on Fatal Woman/Femme Fatale, Hair/Haircutting, Kiss/Kissing, Sacrifice, Martyrdom, Temptation, Metamorphosis and others.

Awards and honors

Faxon has received honors and awards for her work including the

Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award The Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award was established under the presidency of Lee Ann Miller (1978–80). Joan Mondale, artist and wife of vice-president Walter Mondale, helped to secure approval for a national award honoring women ...

in 1996, and a publication in her honor, ''Breaking New Ground in Art History: A Festschrift in Honor of Alicia Craig Faxon'', edited by Margaret A. Hanni.

References

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