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Rosalind Krauss, born 1941
Rosalind Krauss is an influential art critic and heir to the critical tradition of Clement Greenberg, who half-admiringly, half-exasperatingly dubbed her as the "Jewish girl with the typewriter" -- a pose demonstrated in this portrait. After receiving her Ph.D. from Harvard, Krauss established herself as a leading scholar and theoretician of modernism and modern art. Her own work, as well as that done with colleagues and students, loosely crystallized around the journals October and ArtForum, has created a critical paradigm for studying modern art. She has been especially receptive to importing psychological concepts into art scholarship. Krauss now teaches at Columbia University. As well as publishing, she has mounted art exhibitions at such sites as the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Guggenheim in New York City. In 2012 the College Art Association honored her at a Distinguished Scholars Session.
Kathleen Gilje, 2006 |