Abigail solomon godeau biography

American art critic and historian

Abigail Solomon-Godeau (born January 6, 1948, in New York City) is an American art critic, exhibition curator, art historian, and Professor Emerita in art history, University of California, Santa Barbara.^[1]

Education

B.A.,^[2]University of Massachusetts, magna cum laude^{[citation needed]}

Ph.D.,^[2] Graduate Center, City University of New York

Career

Abigail Solomon-Godeau is an art critic and art historian^[3] who taught^[2] at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is now a Professor Emeritus there in the Department of History of Art & Architecture.

Solomon-Godeau is a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow.^[4]

Exhibition curator

Among the exhibitions Solomon-Godeau has curated are;

• The Way We Live Now, 1982
• Sexual Difference: Both Sides of the Camera, 1992
• Mistaken Identities (with Constance Lewallen), 1994
• The Image of Desire; Femininity, Modernity, and the Birth of Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century Franc
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  The movement for change is a changing movement, changing itself, demasculinizing itself, de-Westernizing itself, becoming a critical mass that is saying so in many different voices, languages, gestures, actions: It must change; we ourselves can change it.
  We who are not the same. We who are many and do not want to be the same.
  Adrienne Rich, « Notes toward a Politics of Location »

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  Jimmie Durham, New Clear Family, 1989
  Wood, bronze, beads, rope, paint, mixed materials
  19 dolls, each approx. 18H; overall approx. 86 x 52 in. Courtesy of the artist, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Anvers, and Christine König Galerie, Vienna © Jimmie Durham

  
  
  
  

  The impact on the visual arts of what is generally—if vaguely—termed the multiculturalist debate has been profound. Its effects are manifest discursively as well as institutionally, locally as well as internationally; they can be gauged by an increasing amount of critical writing and media coverage as well as by a growing number of exhibitions organized around multiculturalist themes. Even more significant has been th

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  Abigail Solomon-Godeau

  Abigail Solomon-Godeau (* 6. Januar1948 in New York City) ist eine US-amerikanische Kunstkritikerin, Kunsthistorikerin und emeritierte Hochschullehrerin.^[1]

  Leben und Werk

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  Abigail Solomon-Godeau ist eine Kunstkritikerin und Kunsthistorikerin, die bis zu ihrer Emeritierung an der University of California, Santa Barbara gelehrt hat. Ihre Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind feministische Theorie, Fotografie, französische Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts sowie zeitgenössische Kunst.^[2]

  Schriften

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  • Photography at the Dock. Essays on Photographic History, Institution, and Practices, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1991. ISBN 978-0-8166-1913-9.
  • Male Trouble. A Crisis in Representation, Thames & Hudson, London 1999. ISBN 978-0-5002-8037-9.
  • (mit Gabriele Schor als Hrsg.): Birgit Jürgenssen, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2460-9.
  • Chair à canons. Photographie, discours, féminisme, Le textuel, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2-84597-548-4.
  • Photography aft