Contact details

The Courtauld Institute of Art

Somerset House

Strand

London

WC2R 0RN

 

lisa.tickner@courtauld.ac.uk

 

Lisa Tickner studied Fine Art in the 1960s before switching to art history and completing a Ph D at Reading University in 1970.  She is Professor Emerita of Art History at Middlesex University and joined The Courtauld as Visiting Professor in 2007. Her first book, The Spectacle of Women: imagery of the suffrage campaign 1907-1914 (1988) has become a classic; her second, Modern Life and Modern Subjects: British art in the early 20th century (2000), was shortlisted for the first British Academy Book Prize in 2001. In addition to numerous articles in the academic press she is the author of two further books (on Rossetti, and on art education), and co-editor of four collections of essays on visual culture published 1993-6.

In 1996-7 she gave the Paul Mellon Lectures in British Art at the National Gallery, London, and at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut. She has lectured widely in Europe, Australia and the USA, and   held visiting fellowships at Northwestern University, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute in Massachusetts.


CURRENT RESEARCH/INTERESTS:


The London art world in the 1960s
British art c1880-1980
Contemporary women artists


PROGRAMMES TAUGHT DURING THE FORTHCOMING ACADEMIC YEAR


MA: Modernism in Britain, 1890-1970

 

RECENT/FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS


Published in 2000

Modern Life & Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early 20th Century, New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

‘English Modernism in the Cultural Field’ in (eds.) David Peter Corbett and Lara Perry, Modernities and Identities in English Art, 1860-1914, Manchester: Manchester University Press.


Published in 2002

‘Messing About in Boats: E. J. Gregory’s Boulter’s Lock (R.A. 1897)’, Oxford Art Journal, vol. 25 no. 2, pp. 1-28.


Published in 2003

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, London: Tate Publishing.

‘A Strange Alchemy: Cornelia Parker’, Art History, vol. 26 no. 3, pp. 28-45 (also in Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art, ed. Gill Perry, Oxford: Blackwell).

Published in 2004

‘”Augustus’s Sister”: Gwen John: Wholeness, Harmony and Radiance’ in Gwen John and Augustus John, exh. cat., London: Tate Britain, pp. 28-45.


Published in 2006

‘Mediating Generation: The Mother-Daughter Plot’, in Women Artists at the Millenium, eds. Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zehger, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006.

Published in 2007

‘The Kasmin Gallery, 1963-1972’, Oxford Art Journal, vol. 30 no. 2, pp. 233-268.

‘Walter Sickert and the Camden Town Murder’ in Walter Sickert: The Camden Town Nudes, exh. cat., London: Courtauld Gallery in assoc. with Paul Holberton Publishing, pp. 45-55.


Published in 2008

Hornsey 1968: The Art School Revolution, London: Frances Lincoln.