Carol Armstrong is an American professor, art historian, art critic, and photographer. Armstrong teaches and writes about
19th-century French art, the
history of photography, the history and practice of
art criticism
Art criticism is the discussion or evaluation of visual art. Art critics usually criticize art in the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty. A goal of art criticism is the pursuit of a rational basis for art appreciation but it is quest ...
,
feminist theory
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and women and gender representation in
visual culture
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The field of vi ...
.
Education
Armstrong received her Ph.D. from
Princeton University
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's Department of Art and Archaeology.
Career
Armstrong taught at the
University of California, Berkeley
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, where she was a Townsend Fellow, and received tenure in 1990.
She then taught at the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
She joined the tenured faculty at Princeton University and became the
Doris Stevens Professor of Women's Studies in 1999. Later, she was the director of the program in the study of women and gender from 2004 to 2007.
Armstrong then joined the faculty at
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...
in 2007, where she is a professor of the History of Art, and the director of undergraduate studies in art history. At Yale, she is also affiliated with the women's, gender, and sexuality studies, the film and media studies program, and the French department.
Armstrong has curated exhibitions at the
J. Paul Getty Museum,
Princeton University Art Museum,
The Drawing Center in New York, the
Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University School of Art's Edgewood Gallery.
Awards and honors
In 1994, she was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...
. She was awarded the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award in 1993 from the College Arts Association for her book ''Odd Man Out: Readings of the Work and Reputation of Edgar Degas'', published by the University of Chicago Press.
Selected publications
* ''
Odd Man Out: Readings of the Work and Reputation of Edgar Degas'', The University of Chicago Press, 1991.
CAA Charles Rufus Morey Book Award 1993.
Republished as a paperback by Getty Research Center Publications in 2006.
* ''
Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875'', M.I.T. Press (October Books), Fall 1998.
* ''A Degas sketchbook'', J Paul Getty Museum Publications, 2000.
* ''Manet Manette'', Yale University Press (London), 2002.
* ''Ocean Flowers'', The Drawing Center (New York) and Princeton University Press, Spring 2004, co-editor and contributor.
* ''Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors'', The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004.
* ''Women Artists at the Millennium'', coeditor (with
Catherine de Zegher) and contributor, The MIT Press 2006.
* ''Degas: A Strange New Beauty'', coauthor, Moma, 2016.
* ''Line Into Color, Color Into Line: Helen Frankenthaler, Paintings 1962-1987'', contributor, Gagosian/Rizzoli, 2017.
Selected curatorial projects
* 2001 ''Camera Women'', Princeton University Art Museum.
* 2004 ''Ocean Flowers: Impressions from Nature'', The Drawing Center (New York). and the Yale Center for British Art
* 2004 ''Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors'', The J. Paul Getty Museum.
* 2013 ''Lunch with Olympia'', co-curator, Yale University School of Art’s Edgewood Gallery.
References
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Living people
American art curators
American women curators
Feminist historians
American women art historians
American art historians
Princeton University faculty
Yale University faculty
University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
Princeton University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Historians from California
21st-century American women academics
21st-century American academics