Carol Strickland

Carol Ann Colclough Strickland ( born 1946 ) is a New York-based American art historian.

Strickland attended until 1968, the Rhodes College in Memphis (Tennessee). She studied English literature, received his doctorate in 1973 at the University of Michigan and taught in the 1980s at various colleges, Rutgers University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. During a sabbatical year in Geneva, she began to write about contemporary artists. Upon her return to the U.S., she wrote articles for American newspapers The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, but also for magazines like The Nation and Art & Antiques. In her writings, it deals mostly with art and architecture, and in its two of its most important books: The Annotated Mona Lisa and The Annotated Arch The Annotated Mona Lisa, includes art historical essays on art and architecture, which take in the early history of its beginning and lead to the postmodern era. It has been translated into several languages.

She is married to at the Rockefeller University, New York, teaching biochemist Sidney Strickland.

Writings

• The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post - Modern, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2nd edition, 2007 ISBN 978-0-7407-6872-9
• The Illustrated Timeline of Western Literature, 2007
• The Illustrated Timeline Of Art History: A Crash Course in Words & Pictures, 2006
• The Annotated Arch: A Crash Course in the History Of Architecture, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2001 ISBN 978-0-7407-1024-7