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Linda Dalrymple Henderson (born 1948)[1] is a historian of art whose research involves the connections between modern art, science and technology, and the occult.[2] She is the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.[3]

Education and career

Henderson entered Dickinson College planning to study mathematics, but graduated in 1969 with a major in art history.[2] She earned a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1975.[4] From 1974 to 1977 she was Curator of Modern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; she joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 1978.[3] In 1999 the university gave her their Robert W. Hamilton Book Award for her book on Marcel Duchamp.

Books

Henderson is the author of:

• The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art (Princeton University Press, 1983; enlarged ed., MIT Press, 2014)[5]
• Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works (Princeton University Press, 1998)[6]
• Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York (exhibit catalog, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, 2008)[7]

She is the editor of:

• From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature (with Bruce Clarke, Stanford University Press, 2002)[8]

References

External links

• Linda Dalrymple Henderson publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Vibratory Modernism and the Ether of Space: A Conversation with Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Athenaeum Review

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