Norma Broude


Norma Broude is an American art historian and scholar of feminism and 19th-century French and Italian painting. She is also a Professor Emerita of art history from American University. Broude, with Mary Garrard, is an early leader of the American feminist movement and both have redefined feminist art theory.

Life and work

She was born Norma Freedman on 1 May 1941 in New York. She holds a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Art History from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and English from Hunter College.
Broude taught for a short time at Oberlin College, then Vassar College and Columbia University. In 1975 she was called to the American University and stayed there until retirement.

Awards

  • 2000 – Committee on Women in the Arts presented their annual recognition award at the College Art Association.
  • 1981 – National Endowment for the Humanities
  • 1962 – Scholarship ''Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation''

    Publications

  • Gustave Caillebotte: And the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris, Norma Broude 2002,
  • The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact, with Mary D. Garrard 1996,
  • The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, with Mary D. Garrard 1992,
  • Impressionism: A Feminist Reading: The Gendering of Art, Science, and Nature in the Nineteenth Century, Norma Broude 1991,
  • Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, with Mary D. Garrard 1982,
  • Seurat in Perspective. Norma Broude 1978
  • The Macchiailoli: Academicism and Modernism in Nineteenth Century Italian Painting, Norma Broude, Columbia 1967,
  • World Impressionism: The International Movement, 1860-1920, Norma Broude 1994,