Mary Garrard | |
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Born | 1937 (age 86–87) |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Art historian |
Awards | Lifetime Achievement Award, Women's Caucus for Art (2005) |
Academic background | |
Education | Johns Hopkins University Harvard University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Feminist art history |
Institutions | American University |
Main interests | Artemisia Gentileschi |
Notable works | Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (1989) The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact (1996) |
Mary DuBose Garrard (born 1937) is an American art historian and emerita professor at American University.[1][2] She is recognized as "one of the founders of feminist art theory"[2] and is particularly known for her work on the Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi.[3]