Norma Broude (born 1 May 1941) is an American art historian and scholar of feminism and 19th-century French and Italian painting. She is also a Professor Emerita of art history from American University. Broude, with Mary Garrard, is an early leader of the American feminist movement and both have redefined feminist art theory.

Norma Broude
Born (1941-05-01) 1 May 1941 (age 85)
New York, US
Alma materColumbia University
Hunter College
OccupationArt historian
Employer(s)Oberlin College
Vassar College
American University

Life and work

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She was born Norma Freedman on 1 May 1941 in New York.[1] She holds a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Art History from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and English from Hunter College.[2]

Broude taught for a short time at Oberlin College, then Vassar College and Columbia University. In 1975 she was called to the American University and stayed there until retirement.[citation needed]

Awards

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Publications

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  • Gauguin’s Challenge: New Perspectives After Postmodernism, 2018, ISBN 978-1-5013-2516-8[4]
  • Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism, edited by Norma Broude with Mary D. Garrard, 2005, ISBN 978-0-5202-4252-4[5][6]
  • Gustave Caillebotte: And the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris, Norma Broude 2002, ISBN 978-0-81353-0-185
  • The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact, with Mary D. Garrard 1996, ISBN 978-0-8109-2659-2[7][8]
  • The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, with Mary D. Garrard 1992, ISBN 978-0-06430-2-074
  • Impressionism: A Feminist Reading: The Gendering of Art, Science, and Nature in the Nineteenth Century, Norma Broude 1991, ISBN 978-0-84781-3-971[9][10]
  • Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, with Mary D. Garrard 1982, ISBN 978-0-0643-0117-6
  • Seurat in Perspective. Norma Broude, 1978, ISBN 978-0-13807-1-073[11]
  • The Macchiailoli: Academicism and Modernism in Nineteenth Century Italian Painting, Norma Broude, Columbia 1967, ISBN 978-0-30003-5-476[12][13]
  • World Impressionism: The International Movement, 1860-1920, Norma Broude (ed.) 1994, ISBN 978-0-81098-1-157 (featured in the Seinfeld episode "The Bookstore")

References

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  1. "Norma Broude". Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  2. "Profile Norma Broude". American University. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  3. "Awards for Distinction". College Art Association (CAA). Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  4. Thomson, Belinda (April 3, 2021). "Gauguin's Challenge: New Perspectives After Postmodernism: BROUDE, Norma (ed.) London: Bloomsbury, 2018 328 pp, £23.39 (paperback), ISBN: 9781501325175". Modern & Contemporary France. 29 (2): 227–228. doi:10.1080/09639489.2021.1874321. ISSN 0963-9489. Retrieved June 16, 2026.
  5. Betterton, Rosemary (2007). "Book Review: Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History after Postmodernism". Feminist Review. 87 (1). Retrieved June 16, 2026.
  6. Kokoli, Alexandra M. (2007). "BACK TO BASICS? edited by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard". Art History. 30 (5): 777–781. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8365.2007.00574_3.x. ISSN 0141-6790. Retrieved June 16, 2026.
  7. Haynes, Clarity (March 14, 2015). "How We Got Here: Portrait of the Artist as a Queer Feminist". Hyperallergic Magazine. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  8. Spitz, Ellen Handler (1996). "Review of The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 54 (1): 91–92. doi:10.2307/431689. ISSN 0021-8529. Retrieved June 16, 2026.
  9. Lipton, Eunice (1992). "Norma Broude, "Impressionism" (Book Review)". Art Journal. 51 (4): 99. Retrieved June 16, 2026.
  10. Board, Marilynn Lincoln (1994). "Review of Impressionism, A Feminist Reading: The Gendering of Art, Science and Nature in the Nineteenth Century; World Impressionism: The International Movement, 1860-1920, Norma Broude". Woman's Art Journal. 15 (2): 38–40. doi:10.2307/1358603. ISSN 0270-7993. Retrieved June 16, 2026.
  11. Sheon, Aaron (December 1, 1979). "Norma Broude (ed.), Seurat in Perspective: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1978. 180 pp. $12.95 cloth, $5.95 paper". Art Journal. 39 (2): 143–145. doi:10.1080/00043249.1980.10793562. ISSN 0004-3249. Retrieved June 16, 2026.
  12. Johns, Christopher M S. (1990). "BROUDE, NORMA: "The Macchiaioli: Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century" (Book Review)". Italica. 67 (2): 222. Retrieved June 16, 2026.
  13. Loyrette, Henri (1988). "Norma Broude, The Macchiaioli, Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century. Yale University Press, New Haven et Londres, 1987. 24 p., 306 ill., 91 pl. couleurs. ; Giuliano Matteucci, Lega, l'opera completa, Florence, Giunti, 1987, 2 vol., 391 p. et 435 p., reproduction photographique de tous les tableaux répertoriés". Revue de l'Art (in French). 82 (1): 79–80. Retrieved June 16, 2026.