Carol Armstrong
{{Short description|American art historian, photographer and educator}}
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, feminist theory and women and gender representation in visual culture.{{cite web|title=Carol Armstrong|url=http://arthistory.yale.edu/people/carol-armstrong|website=arthistory.yale.edu|publisher=Yale University, Department of the History of Art|language=en}}
Education
Armstrong received her Ph.D. from Princeton University's Department of Art and Archaeology.
Career
Armstrong taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a Townsend Fellow, and received tenure in 1990.{{cite web|title=Yale Department of the History of Art: Carol Armstrong|url=http://arthistory.yale.edu/people/carol-armstrong|publisher=Yale University|accessdate=12 August 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/fellows/carol-armstrong|title=Carol Armstrong {{!}} Townsend Center for the Humanities|website=townsendcenter.berkeley.edu|access-date=2017-03-27}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/99/1206/tenured.shtml|title=Princeton - PWB 120699 - Four professors join tenured faculty|website=www.princeton.edu|access-date=2017-03-26}} 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 in 2007, where she is a professor of the History of Art, and the director of undergraduate studies in art history.{{cite web|last1=Jones|first1=Sara|title=Art history changes draw mixed reactions|url=http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/11/19/art-history-changes-draw-mixed-reactions/|website=Yale University Daily News|date=19 November 2014 |accessdate=12 August 2017}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/carol-armstrong/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Carol Armstrong|website=www.gf.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-26}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.collegeart.org/programs/awards/morey|title=CAA Awards for Distinction {{!}} Programs |website=www.collegeart.org|language=en|access-date=2017-03-26}}
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.{{Cite book|title=Odd man out : readings of the work and reputation of Edgar Degas|last=Armstrong|first=Carol M.|date=2003-01-01|publisher=Getty Research Institute|isbn=0892367288|oclc=52921079}}
- Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875, M.I.T. Press (October Books), Fall 1998.{{cite web|title=Scenes in a Library|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/scenes-library|website=MIT Press}}
- A Degas sketchbook, J Paul Getty Museum Publications, 2000.{{Cite book|title=A Degas sketchbook|last1=Armstrong|first1=Carol|last2=Hockney|first2=David|date=2000-01-01|publisher=The J. Paul Getty Museum|isbn=0892366109|oclc=645210128}}
- Manet Manette, Yale University Press (London), 2002.{{Cite book|title=Manet Manette|last=Armstrong|first=Carol M.|date=2002-01-01|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0300096585|oclc=470376386}}
- 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/0892366230.html|title=Cezanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors|last=Armstrong|first=Carol|website=www.getty.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-03-28}}
- Women Artists at the Millennium, coeditor (with Catherine de Zegher) and contributor, The MIT Press 2006.{{cite web|title=Women Artists at the Millennium|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/women-artists-millennium|website=MIT Press}}
- Degas: A Strange New Beauty, coauthor, Moma, 2016.{{Cite book|title=Degas : a strange new beauty|last1=Jodi|first1=Hauptman|last2=Armstrong|first2=Carol M.|year=2016 |publisher=Museum of Modern Art |isbn=9781633450059|oclc=945569656}}
- Line Into Color, Color Into Line: Helen Frankenthaler, Paintings 1962-1987, contributor, Gagosian/Rizzoli, 2017.{{Cite book|title=Line into color, color into line: Helen Frankenthaler, paintings 1962-1987.|publisher=Gagosian Gallery|location=Los Angeles, Calif.|isbn=9780847859375|oclc=954104402|year = 2016}}
Selected curatorial projects
- 2001 Camera Women, Princeton University Art Museum.{{cite news|title=Princeton - News - Women Photographers featured in University Art Museum Exhibition|url=https://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/01/q3/0927-camwom.htm|work=www.princeton.edu|date=September 27, 2001}}
- 2004 Ocean Flowers: Impressions from Nature, The Drawing Center (New York).{{cite web|title=The Drawing Center; New York, NY' Exhibitions: Ocean Flowers|url=http://www.drawingcenter.org/en/drawingcenter/5/exhibitions/195/ocean-flowers/|website=www.drawingcenter.org|language=en}} and the Yale Center for British Art{{cite web|title=Ocean Flowers: Impressions from Nature in the Victorian Era {{!}} Yale Center for British Art|url=http://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions/ocean-flowers-impressions-nature-victorian-era|website=britishart.yale.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-03-25|archive-date=2019-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190317171629/https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions/ocean-flowers-impressions-nature-victorian-era|url-status=dead}}
- 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.{{Cite news|url=http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/09/23/aeolympiadae-celebrates-modernist-masterpieces/|title='Olympiad' celebrates modernist masterpieces|access-date=2017-03-28|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=http://news.yale.edu/2013/09/10/yale-marks-150th-anniversary-manet-s-landmark-paintings|title=Yale marks 150th anniversary of Manet's landmark paintings|website=Yale News|access-date=2017-03-28|date=2013-09-10}}{{Cite news|url=http://news.yale.edu/photos/inside-lunch-olympia|title=Inside 'Lunch with Olympia'|work=Yale News|access-date=2017-03-28|language=en}}
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