Amelia Jones

Amelia Jones is an American art historian, art critic and curator specializing in feminist art, body/performance art, video art and Dadaism. Her written works and approach to modern and contemporary art history are considered revolutionary in that she breaks down commonly assumed opinions and offers critiques of the art historical tradition and individual artist's positions in that often elitist sphere.

Background

Amelia Jones, the daughter of Princeton Psychology professor Edward E. Jones, studied art history at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD from UCLA in 1991.

Career

Jones has taught art history at UC Riverside, University of Southern California, the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, and was formerly the Pilkington Chair of the art history department at the University of Manchester. She has also worked as a visiting professor at Maine College of Art, Texas Christian University, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Washington University, St. Louis and is currently a professor and the Grierson Chair in Visual Culture in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University.

Amelia Jones curated the 1996 exhibition, "Sexual Politics" at the Armand Hammer Museum. In 1991, she curated "The politics of difference: artists explore issues of identity" at the UCR/Chandler Art Museum.

Bibliography

The following is a short list of works written by Amelia Jones.

• Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

• Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's 'Dinner Party' in Feminist Art History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

• Body Art/Performing the Subject. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1998.

• Warr, Tracey and Amelia Jones. The Artist's Body. London: Phaidon, 2000.

• The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. New York: Routledge, 2003.

• Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2004.

• Self/Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject, Routledge, 2006

References

Amelia Jones' profile at the University of Manchester [1]

Amelia Jones' profile at McGill University [2]