Tamar Garb: “Afterthoughts on Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography”
In the fourth of this term’s graduate seminars, Tamar Garb will speak on “Afterthoughts on Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography”.
Tamar Garb is Durning Lawrence Professor in the History of Art at UCL. She graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town with a BA (Art) magna cum laude in 1978. In 1980 she was awarded an MA in Art Education from the Institute of Education, University of London and holds both an MA in Art History and a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Her research interests have focused on questions of gender and sexuality, the woman artist and the body in nineteenth and early twentieth century French art and she has published extensively in this field. Key publications include Sisters of the Brush: Women’s Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth Century Paris (Yale University Press, 1994); Bodies of Modernity: Figure and Flesh in Fin de Siecle France, (Thames & Hudson, 1998) and The Painted Face, Portraits of Women in France 1814 -1914 (Yale University Press, 2007). Her latest publication in this area is The Body in Time: Figures of Femininity in Late Nineteenth-Century France, (University of Washington Press, 2008). She has also published on questions of race and representation and in 1995 she collaborated with Linda Nochlin on a volume of essays entitled The Jew in the Text; Modernity and the Construction of Identity (T&H). In 2010 she acted as External Exhibition consultant on Gauguin: Maker of Myth for the Tate and as Consultant Editor on the accompanying catalogue.