 | Dorothy Johnson is Roy J. Carver Professor of Art History. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her area of specialization is 18th and 19th century French and European art. She has published articles on Chardin, the Romantic child, Rousseau and landscape painting, myth in French art, David d'Angers, Delacroix and Jacques-Louis David. She is the author of Jacques-Louis David: Art in Metamorphosis (Princeton University Press, 1993), Jacques-Louis David: the Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis (Getty Museum Monograph Series, 1997) and is editor and contributing author of Jacques-Louis David: New Perspectives (University of Delaware Press, 2006). Her articles and essays have appeared in The Art Bulletin, Art History, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Master Drawings, The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix, Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, among others. Her essay, "Lines of Thought: David's Aporetic Late Drawings" appeared in 2007 in David after David. In 2008 she gave the Bettie Allison Rand Lectures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is writing a book on Romantic mythology in French art. Professor Johnson was a Camargo Foundation resident fellow. She has taught as visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She has served on the Board of Directors of the College Art Association. In 2005 she received the Regents' Award for Faculty Excellence. From 1995-2009 Professor Johnson served as the Director of the School of Art and Art History.
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