[1] B.A.,[2] University of Massachusetts, magna cum laude[citation needed] Ph.D.,[2] Graduate Center, City University of New York Abigail Solomon-Godeau is an art critic and art historian[3] who taught[2] at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is now a Professor Emeritus there in the Department of History of Art & Architecture.
Her writing focuses on feminist theory, photography, 19th-century French art and contemporary art, and she offers a reassessment or revision of the ideas presented by the artistic "canon" and of some of her predecessors in the history of art, such as Martha Rosler and Susan Sontag.
[5] In a 2004 essay she describes herself as among those who "intellectually came of age as postmodernists, poststructuralists, feminists, Marxists, antihumanists, or, for that matter, atheists.
"[6] and later clarifies; Her essays have appeared in journals including Art in America, Artforum, The Art Journal, Afterimage, Camera Obscura, October, Screen, and many have been collected in anthologies in various languages.
She is currently working on a book Genre, Gender and the Nude in French Art.