Ruth E. Iskin’s new book, Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy (January 2025), is the culmination of a life-long interest in women’s art. Iskin pursued this interest initially through her activism in the Los Angeles women’s art movement (at Womanspace and the Woman’s Building, early exhibition and performance spaces for women artists) and by founding and editing pioneering feminist art and culture journals (she is founder of Womanspace Journal and co-founder of Chrysalis). Much of her scholarly work contributes to feminist scholarship in the fields of art history, visual culture, and gender studies. Iskin is a specialist in art and visual culture and their cultural history in the nineteenth- and early twentieth century. She has written on the representations of women in Impressionist painting and in advertising posters; on collecting art and ephemera; and on the cultural history of nineteenth-century posters. Her book The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1850’s-1910’s (2014) made a singlular contribution to the cultural history of the nineteenth-century poster as a new ephemeral medium that played a crucial role in the emerging fields of advertising and design. Iskin’s first book, Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture in Impressionist Painting (2007; Chinese edition 2010), is pioneering in connecting Impressionism to Parisian consumer culture and women’s agency. She is the editor of the volume Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World (2017) and co-editor (with Britany Salsbury) of Collecting Prints, Posters and Ephemera (2019). Iskin has written for various museum exhibition catalogues, including the Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao), the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen), and MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (São Paulo). Her work has been translated into nine languages. Her research has been supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art; the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery, Washington DC (CASVA); the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); and the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris (INHA). Iskin is currently a professor emerita of art history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, where she taught from 2001. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has lectured internationally, including in Paris, Beijing, Hong Kong, and at universities across the US.
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