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About Lisa Tickner
- Lisa Tickner FBA is a British art historian.
- She has taught at Middlesex University (where she is now Emeritus Professor), Northwestern University, and the Courtauld Institute of Art (where she is now Honorary Professor).
- In 2008 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.Tickner's work focuses on the history of modern art in Britain, and on feminist and theoretical approaches to the history of art.
- In 1979 she was one of the founders of BLOCK magazine.
- Her first book, The Spectacle of Women, looked at the imagery of the Suffragette movement in Britain, and has been seen as an early model for visual culture studies.
- Her second book, Modern Life and Modern Subjects, was described on publication as 'simply the best book yet written by an art historian about British modernism'.
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