David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History and Distinguished Teaching Professor, Ph.D.

20th Century European & American Art

Department of Art & Art History

Curriculum Vitae

dnehl@mail.utexas.edu

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Linda Henderson earned her Ph.D. at Yale University and has taught twentieth-century European and American art in the Department of Art and Art History since 1978. Before coming to the University of Texas, she served from 1974 through 1977 as Curator of Modern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Professor Henderson’s research and teaching focus on the interdisciplinary study of modernism, including the relation of modern art to fields such as geometry, science and technology, and mystical and occult philosophies. In addition to periodical articles and catalog essays, she is the author of The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art (Princeton University Press, 1983; new ed., MIT Press, 2008), which received the Vasari Award from the Dallas Museum of Art. Her second book, Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works (Princeton, 1998), won first prize in the Robert W. Hamilton Author Awards competition in 1999.

Professor Henderson’s most recent book is an interdisciplinary anthology co-edited with literature scholar Bruce Clarke, From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature (Stanford University Press, 2002). That volume is based on a symposium of the same title organized at the University of Texas in 1997, which brought together panels of historians of science, literature, and art to discuss the cultural impact of a series of scientific and technological developments, ranging from thermodynamics and ether/electromagnetism to cybernetics and virtual reality. In 2003 Professor Henderson co-organized in Austin the national conference of the Society for Literature and Science (now the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts) on the theme “Rethinking Space and Time Across Science, Literature, and the Arts.”

A Guggenheim Fellow in 1988-89, Professor Henderson is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers and holds the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Art History. See the Art History Newsletter on the Art History home page for Professor Henderson’s lectures and publications during 2005-6 and her current projects.