![]() She was one of the leaders of the feminist movement in art professions, and was the second national President of Women's Caucus for Art. Garrard has lectured extensively on Renaissance art, feminist art, and feminist issues in universities, colleges and museums across the country. With Norma Broude, she co-edited four books on feminism and art history that have become basic texts in American universities and co-curated the recent exhibition Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators for the AU Museum, Katzen Arts Center. ![]() Her publications include two books and other writings on Artemisia Gentileschi, work that pioneered modern scholarship on a major 17th century Italian artist and her most recent book, Brunelleschi’s Egg: Nature, Art and Gender in Renaissance Italy (2010). ![]() ![]() ![]() Best known for her groundbreaking feminist scholarship, Garrard has drawn on feminist theory and activism to illuminate and reinterpret art of the Italian Renaissance-Baroque period. Garrard shows that Gentileschi most likely knew or knew about contemporary writers such as the Venetian feminists Lucrezia Marinella and read more. Mary DuBose Garrard (born 1937) is an American art historian and emerita professor at American University. ![]()
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