Carol M. Armstrong
author
Carol M. Armstrong is an American art historian, art critic, and professor. She is currently the Doris Stevens Professor of Women's Studies in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University and has been a member of the faculty of the Department of the History of Art at Yale University since 2007. Armstrong received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1986. Her scholarship focuses on 19th-century French painting, the history of photography, art criticism, and feminist theory, with a specific emphasis on the representation of women and gender in art and visual culture. She has written extensively on figures such as Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, and Paul Cézanne. She is a frequent contributor to publications like October and Artforum magazines and has curated numerous exhibitions at institutions including the Yale Center for British Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum.[1]
- French painting
- history of photography
- art criticism
- feminist theory
- representation of women and gender in art
Books
Works by Carol M. Armstrong
- 1998 Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875 A study of photographically illustrated books from the mid-19th century.
- 2018 Cézanne’s Gravity Won the 2019 Robert Motherwell Book Award for an Outstanding Book on Modernism in the Arts.
- 2006 Women Artists at the Millennium Co-authored with M. Catherine de Zegher.
- 1991 Odd Man Out: Readings of the Work and Reputation of Edgar Degas
- 2004 Cezanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors
- 2002 Manet Manette
- 2023 Painting Photography Painting A collection of her essays.
Exhibitions
- 2013 Lunch with Olympia
Awards
- 2019 Robert Motherwell Book Award for an Outstanding Book on Modernism in the Arts
References
- MIT Press. 2018 link