Mary D. Garrard, Professor of Art History
Education:
PhD, The Johns Hopkins University (1970)
MA, Harvard University (1960)
BA, Newcomb College (Tulane University) (1958)
Professor Garrard's scholarship has embraced Italian Renaissance and Baroque
art and feminist studies. She is the author of Artemisia Gentileschi:
The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (Princeton University
Press, 1989). and Artemisia Gentileschi Around 1622: The Shaping and
Reshaping of an Artistic Identity. She has published articles and
reviews on Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Jacopo Sansovino,
Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, and feminist art theory,
in The Art Bulletin, Burlington Magazine, Journal of
the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, and other journals.
With colleague Norma Broude, Garrard edited and contributed to two volumes that have become textbook classics: Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany (Harper & Row, 1982), and The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History (HarperCollins, 1992). A third collection of feminist essays, Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History after Postmodernism is presently being published by the University of California Press. A fourth collaborative book edited by Broude and Garrard is The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact (Harry N. Abrams, 1994; paperback, 1996).
Professor Garrard has lectured extensively at universities, colleges and museums across the country and abroad. She served as national President of Women's Caucus for Art (1974-76), as a member of the Board of Directors of the College Art Association, and in 1979-81 she was Chair of the CAA Committee on the Status of Women. She has also served as Chair of the Department of Art, American University.
Garrard teaches two graduate level courses in Italian Renaissance art (Giotto to Bellini, and Leonardo to Caravaggio), and she also teaches the art history methods course for entering graduate students (Approaches to Art History). Her seminar topics have included: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Mannerism, Titian, Caravaggio, Women and Gender in Renaissance Art, and Women Artists from Antiquity through the 18th Century.
