Nancy J. Troy (born 27 December 1952) is Victoria and Roger Sant Professor in Art at

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. She was previously professor of modern art and chair of art history at the

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until 2010. Troy is a specialist in modern European art and has written books on the De Stijl movement,

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and the

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in France, and the works of

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Early life

Nancy J. Troy was born on 27 December 1952. She received her BA from

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in 1974, her MA from

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in 1976, and her PhD from

in 1979.

Career

Troy taught at

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(1979–83),

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(1983-93), and the University of Southern California (1994-2010). She is currently the Victoria and Roger Sant Professor in Art at Stanford University.Nancy J. Troy.
Stanford Department of Art and Art History. Retrieved 5 January 2017. Troy is a specialist in modern European art and has written books on the De Stijl movement (1983), modernism and the decorative arts in France (1991) and the afterlife of the works of Piet Mondrian (2013) in which she explored how the artist's work had been exploited by commercial interests after his death to become a brand. She is a past president of the

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and was editor-in-chief of the

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journal, ''

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'', from 1994 to 1997.

Selected publications

*''The De Stijl Environment''. MIT Press, 1983. *''Modernism and the Decorative Arts in France: Art Nouveau to Le Corbusier''. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1991. *''Architecture and Cubism''. MIT Press, 1998. (Edited with Eve Blau) *''Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion''. MIT Press, 2003. *''The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian''. University of Chicago Press, 2013.''The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian''.
University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 5 January 2017.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Troy, Nancy Living people American art historians American women art historians Stanford University Department of Art and Art History faculty 1952 births Wesleyan University alumni Yale University alumni University of Southern California faculty Northwestern University faculty Historians from California