Tamar Garb is Durning Lawrence Professor in the Department of History of Art at

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. A researcher of French art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Garb has published numerous catalogue essays and books that address feminism, the body, sexuality, and gender in cultural representations. Garb has also written essays about numerous contemporary artists, such as

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, and Massimo Vitali. Garb has also organized several art exhibitions, including ''Reisemalheurs'' at the

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in London in 2007 (on South African painter Vivienne Koorland), and ''Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography'' at the

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in London in 2011. More recently, she has been researching and publishing on the history of art and photography in post-apartheid South Africa, including curating exhibitions on this subject (including ''Land Marks/Home Lands: Contemporary Art from South Africa'' at the

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Gallery in London in 2008). Garb's exhibition ''Figures and Fictions'' was nominated for a Lucie award in Curating.

Education and career

Garb was born in Israel in 1956. She attended the

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, at the University of Cape Town, receiving a BA in Art in 1978. Moving to London soon after, she received her MA in 1982, and her PhD in 1991, both in Art History, from the

Courtauld Institute of Art The Courtauld Institute of Art (), commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation. It is among the most prestigious specialist coll ...

. She worked at the Courtauld as lecturer from 1988 to 1989, and has taught at UCL since 1989, where she was promoted in 2001 to professor. In 2014 she was elected a

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the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities and social sciences.

Works

*''Sisters of the Brush: Women’s Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth Century Paris'' (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994) *''Bodies of Modernity, Figure and Flesh in Fin de Siècle France'' (London: Thames & Hudson, 1998) *''The Unquiet Image: The Paintings of Vivienne Koorland'' (1998) *''The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France 1814–1914'' (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007) *''The Body in Time; Figures of Femininity in Late Nineteenth-Century France'' (University of Washington Press, 2008) *''Home Lands – Land Marks; Contemporary Art from South Africa'' (London: Haunch of Venison, 2008) *''Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography'' (London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 2011)

References

External links

UCL Art History Profile
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