Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Abigail Solomon-Godeau (born January 06, 1948 in New York City, New York, U.S.A.) is an American art critic, exhibition curator and art historian.

Education

B.A. University of Massachusetts Ph.D. Graduate Center, City University of New York

Life and work

Abigail Solomon-Godeau is an art critic and art historian who taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is now a Professor Emeritus there in the Department of History of Art & Architecture.

Her work focuses on feminist theory, Photography, 19th century French art and contemporary art and she offers a critique of some of her predecessors in the history of art, such as martha rossler and susan sontag. Her essays have appeared in journals including Art in America, Artforum, The Art Journal, Afterimage, Camera Obscura, October, Screen, and many have been collected in  anthologies in various languages. She has produced over one hundred works in 236 publications in 4 languages.

She is currently working on as book entitled Genre, Gender and the Nude in French Art.

Exhibition curator

Among the exhibitions Solomon-Godeau has curated are;

• The Way We Live Now (1982)
• Sexual Difference: Both Sides of the Camera (1992)
• Mistaken Identities (with Constance Lewallen) 1994
• The Image of Desire; Femininity, Modernity, and the Birth of Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century France (with Beatrice Farwell) in 1998.

Publicatons

• Photography at the Dock. Essays on Photographic History, Institution, and Practices, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1991. ISBN 978-0-8166-1913-9.
• Male Trouble. A Crisis in Representation, Thames & Hudson, London 1999. ISBN 978-0-5002-8037-9.
• (with Gabriele Schor as Ed.): Birgit Jürgenssen , Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2460-9 .
• Cannon fodder. Photography, speech, feminism , the textual, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2-84597-548-4 .
• Photography after Photography. Gender, Genre, History, Duke University Press, Durham, London 2017. ISBN 978-0-8223-6266-1.