Linda Dalrymple Henderson (born 1948) is a historian of art whose research involves the connections between

modern art Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the tradi ...

, science and technology, and the occult. She is the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

Education and career

Henderson entered

Dickinson College , mottoeng = Freedom is made safe through character and learning , established = , type = Private liberal arts college , endowment = $645.5 million (2022) , president = J ...

planning to study mathematics, but graduated in 1969 with a major in art history. She earned a Ph.D. from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

in 1975. From 1974 to 1977 she was Curator of Modern Art at the

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Build ...

; she joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 1978. In 1999 the university gave her their

Robert W. Hamilton Book Award The Professor Robert W. Hamilton Book Author Award is presented annually to the best book-length publication by a staff or faculty member of the University of Texas at Austin. It is chosen by a committee of various disciplines, who in turn were chos ...

for her book on

Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, , ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso ...

Books

Author

*''The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art'' (Princeton University Press, 1983; enlarged ed., MIT Press, 2014) *''Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works'' (Princeton University Press, 1998) *''Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York'' (exhibit catalog, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, 2008)

Editor

*''From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature'' (with Bruce Clarke, Stanford University Press, 2002)

References

External links

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Vibratory Modernism and the Ether of Space: A Conversation with Linda Dalrymple Henderson
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