Linda Dalrymple Henderson

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. Bitts-Jackson, MaryAlice (October 9, 2019), "Science, Math, Technology and ... Art? Skimming the Fourth Dimension With Linda Henderson '69", Dickinson News, Dickinson College
  3. "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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