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Voyage 9:
July 10 - July 26, 2004 |
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| Dr.
Elizabeth Childs |
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Associate Professor of Art History at Washington University
in St. Louis, is a specialist in nineteenth-century French art
history. She has published numerous articles and exhibition
catalogue essays on Gauguin. She is currently writing
a survey text on Gauguin for Phaidon Press, London. Her
essays have focussed on such topics as, and Gauguin's relationship
with Van Gogh and the avant-garde, Gauguin and colonial culture
in Polynesia, Gauguin and photography, and Gauguin's work as
a writer, particularly during his later career in the Marquesas.
She received her PhD in 1989 at Columbia University.
She has taught art history at Purchase College, State
University of New York, and since 1993, has been on the faculty
of Washington University in St. Louis. She has also worked
at the Guggenheim Museum, and has held fellowships from the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and
the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has served
as a lecturer and guide on several study tours to both Europe
and Polynesia.
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