Lisa Tickner FBA is a British art historian. She has taught at

Middlesex University Middlesex University London (legally Middlesex University and abbreviated MDX) is a public research university in Hendon, northwest London, England. The name of the university is taken from its location within the historic county boundaries ...

(where she is now Emeritus Professor),

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

, and 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 ...

(where she is now Honorary Professor). In 2008 she was elected a Fellow of the

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. Tickner's work focuses on the history of modern art in Britain, and on feminist and theoretical approaches to the history of art. In 1979 she was one of the founders of BLOCK magazine. Her first book, ''The Spectacle of Women'', looked at the imagery of the Suffragette movement in Britain, and has been seen as an early model for visual culture studies. Her second book, ''Modern Life and Modern Subjects'', was described on publication as 'simply the best book yet written by an art historian about British modernism'.

Early life

Tickner initially studied Fine Art at the

Hornsey School of Art Hornsey College of Art (a.k.a. Hornsey School of Art) was a college in Crouch End in the London Borough of Haringey, England. The HCA was "an iconic British art institution, renowned for its experimental and progressive approach to art and design ...

, but was encouraged to pursue art history by

Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...

. She completed a PhD on the arts and crafts movement in 1970.

Career

In the 1970s Tickner was involved with the

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in a way that influenced her scholarship. Her paper "The Body Politic: Female Sexuality and Women Artists Since 1970", presented at the 1977 AAH conference, was published in the second issue of the newly formed journal ''Art History,'' and led to the resignation of one of the members of the journal's editorial board.

References

External links

Courtauld page
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