Sarah Wilson is an art historian and curator; she is a professor of History of Art at the
Courtauld Institute
The Courtauld Institute of Art (), commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation.
The art collection is known particularly for ...
, London.
[Professor Sarah Wilson.]
The Courtauld Institute, 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2013
Archived here.
/ref> In 1997, Wilson was made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
The Order of Arts and Letters () is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is the recognition of significant ...
by the French Government for services to French art and culture.
Selected publications
*''Picasso, Marx and Socialist Realism in France'', Liverpool, Liverpool University Press
Liverpool University Press (LUP), founded in 1899, is the third oldest university press in England after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. As the press of the University of Liverpool, it specialises in modern languages, lit ...
, 2013.
*''The Visual World of French Theory: Figurations'', Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day and Clarence Day, grandsons of Benjamin Day, and became a department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and ope ...
, 2010.
*''Matisse, Barcelona'', Ediciones Poligrafa, 2009. (English and Spanish editions)
*‘Pierre Klossowski, epiphanies and secrets’, ''Pierre Klossowski
Pierre Klossowski (; ; 9 August 1905 – 12 August 2001) was a French writer, translator and artist. He was the eldest son of the artists Erich Klossowski and Baladine Klossowska, and his younger brother was the painter Balthus.
Life
Born in ...
'', ed. Sarah Wilson Whitechapel Art Gallery
The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery in Whitechapel on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The original building, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, opened in 1901 as one of the fir ...
and Hatje Cantz
Hatje Cantz Verlag (English: Hatje Cantz Publishing) is a German book publisher specialising in photography, art, architecture and design. It was established in 1945 by Gerd Hatje[Poststructuralism
Post-structuralism is a philosophical movement that questions the objectivity or stability of the various interpretive structures that are posited by structuralism and considers them to be constituted by broader systems of power. Although diffe ...]
', Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945, ed. Amelia Jones, Oxford, 2005, Blackwell Companions to Art History.
See also
*Women in the art history field
Women were professionally active in the academic discipline of art history in the nineteenth century and participated in the important shift early in the century that began involving an "''Emphatically Corporeal Visual Subject''", with Vernon Lee ...
References
External links
Interview with Professor Sarah Wilson, The Courtauld Institute of Art. Followed after Opening of The Exhibition: Dictionary Of An Artist , The Drawings Of Viktor Pivovarov. 18 January 2012.Sarah Wilson's personal website.
Living people
Academics of the Courtauld Institute of Art
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art
British women art historians
British art historians
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