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Carol duncan art historian biography of albert

          Established art history generally studies iconography only in relation to literary sources, pictorial traditions, or religious beliefs.!

          This document discusses the role of art criticism in the high art world.

        1. This document discusses the role of art criticism in the high art world.
        2. Much of what follows draws from Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach, 'The Universal Survey.
        3. Established art history generally studies iconography only in relation to literary sources, pictorial traditions, or religious beliefs.
        4. Duncan's books discusses the history of art museums and focusses in on some notable, present day museums.
        5. Carol Duncan.

          6. Carol Duncan

          American art historian

          Carol Greene Duncan is a Marxist-feminist scholar known as a pioneer of ‘new art history’, a social-political approach to art, who is recognized for her work in the field of Museum Studies, particularly her inquiries into the role that museums play in defining cultural identity.[1][2]

          Education

          Carol Duncan earned a BA from University of Chicago in 1958, a MA from the University of Chicago in 1960,[3] and a Ph.D.

          from Columbia University,[4] where she wrote on “the survival and the full re-emergence of the Rococo tradition in French painting during the late 18th and 19th centuries.”[5]

          Teaching

          Carol Duncan served as a faculty member in the Ramapo College School of Contemporary Arts from 1972 until she retired in 2005.

          She is Professor Emerita at Ramapo College.[4]

          Work

          Duncan's work examines the critical role that museums play in defining cultural identity.[6]