Amy Dempsey
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Amy Jo Dempsey FRSA (born 1963) is an independent scholar and art historian. Her book Styles, schools and movements (2002) has received two editions and has been translated into several languages.
Early life
Amy Dempsey was born in 1963. She lived in 17 different places before the age of 10.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019h157 "Swimming – Land Art – Sicily".] Excess Baggage, BBC Radio 4, 14 January 2012. (10m, 23s) Retrieved 21 May 2017. She was an early member of the Oakview Exhibitional Club, where she excelled at unicycle, German gym wheel and triple balancing, among other arts.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} She also was a 4-H Fair sewing champion, winning numerous blue ribbons and attending the Virginia State Fair on more than one occasion.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} She was particularly known for the infamous "yellow dress," whose hem required many yards of painstaking needlework. She studied at Hunter College in New York under Rosalind Krauss before receiving her PhD from the Courtauld Institute in London on the subject of The friendship of America and France: A new internationalism, 1961–1965.[http://encore.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1840045 The friendship of America and France : a new internationalism, 1961–1965.] University of London. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
Writing
Dempsey's first book was Styles, schools and movements, published by Thames & Hudson in 2002, which has been translated into several languages. A second expanded edition was published in 2010.[http://www.destination-art.org/styles.html Styles, schools and movements.] Destination Art. Retrieved 21 May 2017.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160114200615/https://www.thamesandhudson.com/Styles_Schools_and_Movements/9780500288443 Styles, Schools and Movements.] Thames & Hudson. Archived at archive.org 14 January 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2017. Her second book was Destination art (2006) on the subject of land art.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/40206357 Review: Destination Art by Amy Dempsey; Topographies by John Sallis], Review by Glenn Parsons, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Summer, 2008), pp. 321–323.[http://www.destination-art.org/ Destination Art.] Retrieved 21 May 2017.[http://www.metroactive.com/metro//01.24.07/destination-art-0704.html Destination Art.] Review by Michael S. Gant. metroactive, 24–30 January 2007. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Selected publications
- Styles, schools and movements: The essential encyclopaedic guide to modern art. Thames & Hudson, 2002. (2nd edition 2010) {{ISBN|0500237883}}
- Art in the modern era: A guide to styles, schools, & movements. Abrams, 2002. (U.S. edition of Styles, Schools and Movements) {{ISBN|978-0810941724}}
- Destination art. Thames & Hudson, London, 2006. {{ISBN|9780500238325}}
- Museu Berardo: An itinerary. Thames & Hudson, London, 2007. (co-author) {{ISBN|978-0500287002}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019h157 Amy Dempsey talking about Land Art on Excess Baggage, BBC Radio 4.]
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Category:Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art
Category:British women art historians
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