This public lecture is organized as part of the annual Visiting Fellow of Modern and Contemporary Art, a collaboration between The RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam.
The 2021-2022 fellow is the art historian Tamar Garb. Professor Garb’s research has focused on questions of gender and sexuality, the woman artist and the body in nineteenth and early twentieth century French art. Key publications include Sisters of the Brush: Women’s Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth Century Paris (Yale University Press, 1994) and The Painted Face, Portraits of Women in France 1814 -1914 (Yale University Press, 2007). Her more recent work addresses post apartheid culture and art as well as the history of photographic practices in South Africa. She has notably curated a number of exhibitions in this field, including, in 2008 Land Marks/Home Lands; Contemporary Art from South Africa at Haunch of Venison Gallery in London, in 2011 Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and in 2014/15 Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive, Walther Collection, New York, Neu Ulm and Berlin. Her article ‘Painting/Politics/Photography: Marlene Dumas, Mme Lumumba and the Image of the African Woman’ appeared in the journal Art History, in 2020. Professor Garb is Durning Lawrence Professor of History of Art at University College London and a Fellow of the British Academy.

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