VISUAL CULTURE
Lisa Tickner: Profile
Lisa Tickner’s background is in feminist theory and nineteenth- and early-twentieth art history, but her current research interests focus on art education, and the London art world in the 1960s. Her publications include Dante Gabriel Rossetti (2003); Modern Life & Modern Subjects (2000, short-listed for the first British Academy Book Prize); The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907-1914 (1988); articles in Art History, Art Bulletin, Block , New Formations, Oxford Art Journal, Genders and Differences ; catalogue essays for the I.C.A., The New Museum, New York, and Tate Britain ; and broadcasts including Radio 3, Radio 4, the World Service, ‘The Late Show’ for BBC2 and ‘Voices’ for Channel 4. Current research interests include early 20th century British modernism (on which she gave the Paul Mellon lectures in 1996), the London art world in the 1960s, and contemporary art. Tickner spoke at the conference, The Rise of the London Art Market, Tate Britain, 8 and 9 February 2007, and a longer version of her paper on ‘The Kasmin Gallery 1963-72’ was published in The Oxford Art Journal , summer 2007. A short book on Hornsey College of Art in the 1960s is in press, and will appear in 2008.
