Joanna Woodall
{{Short description|British art historian}}
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Joanna Woodall (born 1956) is an art historian at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where she is a specialist in portraiture and Netherlandish art.
Education
Woodall has a BA degree in history from the University of York and an MA and PhD from the Courtauld Institute.
Career
Woodall was a Speelman Fellow in Dutch and Flemish Art at Wolfson College, Cambridge, from 1980 to 1982,[http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/alumni/wolfsonplus/speelman Collecting and Scholarship: Netherlandish Art in Cambridge.] Wolfson College. Retrieved 2 May 2015. and an assistant curator at Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford, from 1982 to 1985.[https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joanna-woodall/a/576/219 Joanna Woodall.] LinkedIn. Retrieved 2 May 2015. She spent a year on a Leverhulme Fellowship at the University of Leiden.
She has been at the Courtauld Institute of Art since 1986 where she specialises in portraiture and Netherlandish art. Woodall has also been a member of the editorial board of the Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art) (until 2023).[http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/people/woodall-joanna.shtml Professor Joanna Woodall.] The Courtauld Institute, 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2013. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140110193420/http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/people/woodall-joanna.shtml Archived here.]
Protests
In 2010, Woodall was with a group of Courtauld students protesting about increased university tuition fees when they reportedly received rough treatment from the Metropolitan Police with Woodall herself being picked up by an officer and thrown into a group of protestors.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/footage-shows-protester-dragged-from-wheelchair-2159570.html Footage shows protester dragged from wheelchair] by Michael Savage and Nigel Morris, The Independent, 14 December 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2013. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101215012142/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/footage-shows-protester-dragged-from-wheelchair-2159570.html Archived here].
Selected publications
- Portraiture: Facing the Subject. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1997. (Editor) {{ISBN|0719046149}}
- "Wtewael's Perseus and Andromeda: looking for love in seventeenth century Dutch painting" in C. Arscott and K. Scott eds., Manifestations of Venus. Art and Sexuality, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2000.
- Self Portrait. Renaissance to Contemporary. National Portrait Gallery, London and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005. (With Anthony Bond, Timothy J. Clark, Ludmilla J. Jordanova and Joseph Leo Koerner) {{ISBN|1855143569}}
- Anthonis Mor. Art and Authority. Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History Volume 8. Waanders Press, Zwolle, 2007. (With Tony Bond) {{ISBN|9789040084218}}
- "A Woman's Place. Joanna Woodall 1982-1985", in Jacqueline Thalmann (ed.), 40 Years of Christ Church Picture Gallery. Still one of Oxford’s best kept secrets. 2008.
- Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 59 (2009): Envisioning the Artist in the Early Modern Netherlands. Edited with H. Perry Chapman. 2010.
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.courtauld.org.uk/netherlandishcanon/groups/essay-woodall01.html Dem dry Bones. Portrayal in print after the death of the Original Model: An essay by Joanna Woodall.]
- [http://vimeo.com/24003416 Joanna Woodall lecturing on Trading Identities, the image of the merchant at Gresham College.]
- http://courtauld.academia.edu/JoannaWoodall
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