Judith Wechsler
Born (1940-12-28) December 28, 1940
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Academic work
School or traditionArt history

Judith Wechsler (born Judith Glatzer; December 28, 1940) is an American art historian and filmmaker. She is the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor Emerita at Tufts University, specializing in nineteenth-century French painting, drawing, and caricature, and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. She has also taught at MIT and Harvard.[1]

Education

Wechsler earned her BA from Brandeis University, MA from Columbia University and her PhD at the University of California at Los Angeles, writing her thesis on "Major Trends in Cézanne Interpretations,”[2] which she later published as The Interpretation of Cézanne in 1981.[3]

Selected works

  • Cézanne In Perspective. Prentice-Hall, 1975.
  • On Aesthetics in Science. MIT Press, 1978.
  • The Interpretation of Cézanne. UMI Research Press, 1981.
  • (with Richard Sennett) A Human Comedy : Physiognomy and Caricature in 19th Century Paris. University of Chicago Press, 1982.
  • A Human Comedy: Physiognomy and Caricature in Nineteenth Century Paris, 1982
  • Art Journal : The Issue of Caricature. College Art Association of America, 1984.
  • Daumier. Flammarion, 1999.

References

  1. ↑ "American Academy in Berlin". Retrieved November 3, 2022.
  2. ↑ Library of Congress (1973–1979). National Union Catalog. Vol. 129. Washington, DC: Library of Congress. p. 273.
  3. ↑ Wechsler, Judith (1981). The interpretation of Cézanne. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press. pp. Preface. ISBN 0-8357-1240-0. OCLC 7740740.


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