Barbara Maria Stafford

Barbara Maria Stafford ( b. 1941 ) is an American art historian.

Life

Stafford graduated in 1964 her studies in philosophy and comparative literature at Northwestern University with a BA degree, continued his studies from 1961 to 1962 at the Sorbonne in Paris continued and finally acquired the 1966 MA in Art History ( Art History ) at Northwestern University. In 1972, she then received his doctorate at the University of Chicago for the Ph.D. in art history.

She taught at the National College of Education ( 1969-70 ), at Loyola University, Chicago ( 1971-72 ), at the University of Delaware ( 1972-73 ), at the University of Chicago ( 1973-81 ) and as William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor ( 1981-95 ).

In 1995 she was awarded the Science Award of Aby Warburg Foundation.

Writings

• Symbol and Myth. Humbert de Superville 's Essay on Absolute signs in Article Cranbury, NJ:. Associated University Presses, 1979
• Body Criticism. Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 1991.
• Artful Science. Enlightenment, Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994.
• Good Looking. Essays on the Virtue of Images. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996.
• Visual Analogy. Consciousness as the Art of Connecting. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999.
• Zs with Frances Terpak: Devices of Wonder. From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen. Catalog for an exhibition at the Getty Research, November 13, 2001 to February 6, 2002. ( Getty Research Institute, 2001) Getty Catalog Press Release.