| Patricia Reilly received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a lecturer at Santa Clara University, California. She studies the language used in, and philosophical foundations of, the discourse of art history. Dr. Reilly has an essay in the anthology The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, Norma Broude and Mary Garrard, eds. (HarperCollins, 1994), which addresses the Renaissance disegno/colorito controversy in light of the gender-based metaphors that drive it. This gender dynamic, she suggests, illuminates why the controversy over the relative merits of line and color was so rhetorically charged from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. In her teaching she asks students to consider the assumptions that inform the ways in which art and artists are presented in art history, in art criticism and in exhibitions: assumptions about the agent, materials, practices, and subject matter of art. In the process she offers alternative approaches, including feminist readings of the images and texts under consideration.
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