These are: Feminism and Art History (1982) The Expanding Discourse (1992) and Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism (2005) and The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s (1994).Ĭo-sponsored with the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR) and the CUNY Academy for Humanities and Sciences. Garrard has also written extensively on Italian Renaissance and Early Modern art, such as in Brunelleschi’s Egg: Gender, Art, and Nature in Renaissance Italy (University of California Press, 2010), and in numerous recent articles.Īdditionally, with her colleague Norma Broude, Garrard created and edited several books that have become basic texts in art history and women’s studies courses. Her third book on the artist, Artemisia Gentileschi and Early Modern Feminism (Reaktion Books, 2020), positions the artist among the feminist treatises and debates of her time. In Artemisia Gentileschi Circa 1622: The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity (University of California, 2001), Garrard addressed new critical issues in Gentileschi studies. Her 1989 book, Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (Princeton, 1989) launched modern studies of the now-famous artist. C., best known for her work on Artemisia Gentileschi. Garrard is Professor Emerita of Art History at American University, Washington, D. In this talk, Garrard will discuss her new book, with particular attention to feminist issues that were addressed in art and feminist texts of early modern Italy, France, and England.

She shows that Artemisia knew or knew about contemporary feminist writers such as the Venetians Lucrezia Marinella and Arcangela Tarabotti and, through close analysis, brings out the striking alignment of her paintings with the writers’ texts. Garrard’s latest book, Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe (London: Reaktion Books, 2020), Garrard examines the artist in the context of women’s political history and the feminist protest that was bubbling in early modern Europe. Yet Artemisia’s art remains to be considered in full historical perspective.

Her dramatic and forceful paintings with their vigorous female protagonists have excited modern audiences, something most recently demonstrated in the international enthusiasm for the “Artemisia” exhibition at the National Gallery, London.

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