Rebecca Zorach | |
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Title | Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Chicago |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Northwestern University |
Notable works | Blood,Milk,Ink,Gold |
Rebecca Zorach (born 1969) is an art historian and Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on early modern European art,contemporary and activist art. [1]
Zorach earned her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1999. [1]
Zorach won the 2006 Gustave O. Arlt Award from the Council of Graduate Schools and the 2005 book prize from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women for her book Blood,Milk,Ink,Gold:Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance. [2]
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