Gay Robins
{{short description|Art historian}}
Gay Robins is an art historian. She was formerly the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History at Emory University. She now holds the title of professor emerita. She also assisted the Michael C. Carlos Museum as a faculty consultant for Ancient Egyptian Art.{{cite web|title=Gay Robins|url=http://arthistory.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/robins.html|website=arthistory.emory.edu|publisher=Emory University|access-date=8 March 2017|language=en|archive-date=8 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308141648/http://arthistory.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/robins.html|url-status=dead}} Her work focuses on ancient Egyptian art, composition, gender and sexuality.{{Cite news|url=http://www.livescience.com/28510-hatshepsut-first-female-pharaoh.html|title=Hatshepsut: First Female Pharaoh|last=Jarus|first=Owen|date=April 5, 2013|work=Live Science|access-date=2017-03-08}}
Robins earned a D.Phil. from University of Oxford in 1981.
Works
- Egyptian Painting and Relief (Shire Publications, 1986){{Cite web|url=http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/egyptian-painting-and-relief-9780852637890/|title=Egyptian Painting and Relief|website=Bloomsbury Publishing|language=en|access-date=2017-03-08}}{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Women in Ancient Egypt (British Museum Press and Harvard University Press, 1993){{Cite web|url=http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674954694|title=Women in Ancient Egypt — Gay Robins {{!}} Harvard University Press|website=www.hup.harvard.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-03-08}}{{Cite journal|last=Meskell|first=Lynn|author-link=Lynn Meskell |date=1997-11-01|title=Engendering Egypt|journal=Gender & History|language=en|volume=9|issue=3|pages=597–602|doi=10.1111/1468-0424.00078|s2cid=247702496 |issn=1468-0424}}
- Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art (University of Texas Press, 1994){{Cite book|url=https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/robpro|title=Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art|date=1993-06-05|website=utpress.utexas.edu|publisher=University of Texas Press|access-date=February 5, 2019|isbn=978-0-292-77064-5}}{{Cite journal|last=Peck|first=William H.|date=1999-07-01|title=Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art. Gay Robins|journal=Journal of Near Eastern Studies|volume=58|issue=3|pages=203–207|doi=10.1086/468713|issn=0022-2968}}
- The Art of Ancient Egypt (British Museum Press and Harvard University Press, 1997){{Cite web|url=http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674030657|title=The Art of Ancient Egypt — Gay Robins|website=www.hup.harvard.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-03-08}}{{Cite journal|last=Riggs|first=Christina|date=Summer 2002|title=Review of Gay Robins, The Art of Ancient Egypt (Harvard UP, 2000)|url=https://www.academia.edu/21694593|journal=African Arts|language=en|volume=35|issue=2|pages=11, 88–89|doi=10.1162/afar.2002.35.2.11 }}
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