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Linda Dalrymple Henderson

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Linda Dalrymple Henderson (born 1948)[1] is a historian of art whose research involves the connections between modern art, science and technology, and the occult.[2] She is the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.[3]

Education and career

Henderson entered Dickinson College planning to study mathematics, but graduated in 1969 with a major in art history.[2] She earned a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1975.[4] From 1974 to 1977 she was Curator of Modern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; she joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 1978.[3] In 1999 the university gave her their Robert W. Hamilton Book Award for her book on Marcel Duchamp.

Books

Henderson is the author of:

  • The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art (Princeton University Press, 1983; enlarged ed., MIT Press, 2014)[5]
  • Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works (Princeton University Press, 1998)[6]
  • Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York (exhibit catalog, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, 2008)[7]

She is the editor of:

  • From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature (with Bruce Clarke, Stanford University Press, 2002)[8]

References

  1. ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2020-02-16
  2. ^ a b Bitts-Jackson, MaryAlice (October 9, 2019), "Science, Math, Technology and ... Art? Skimming the Fourth Dimension With Linda Henderson '69", Dickinson News, Dickinson College
  3. ^ a b "Linda Dalrymple Henderson", People, University of Texas at Austin Department of Art & Art History, retrieved 2020-02-16
  4. ^ Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2020-02-16
  5. ^ Reviews of The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art:
  6. ^ Reviews of Duchamp in Context:
  7. ^ Faires, Robert (January 2, 2009), "This trippy exhibit revisits New Frontier artists engaged in their own space race", Austin Chronicle
  8. ^ Reviews of From Energy to Information:

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