Moira Roth
Moira Roth was a feminist art historian and art critic who was Trefethen Professor of Art History at
Mills College in Oakland, California from 1985 to 2017. She taught at the
University of California, San Diego from 1974 to 1985. She was educated at the
London School of Economics in England, and received a B.A. in sociology and an M.A. from
New York University and a PhD from the
University of California, Berkeley in 1974. She wrote extensively on contemporary art, editing ''The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America 1970-1980, A Source Book'', published by Astro Artz (1983). Her collection of essays, ''Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage'', was published, with a commentary by
Jonathan D. Katz, by Psychology Press (1998), exploring the construction of masculinity and conflicting identities. She received a
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Caucus for Art in 1997, and the National Recognition in the Arts Award from the
College Art Association in 2006. She appears in
Lynn Hershman Leeson's 2010 documentary film ''
!Women Art Revolution''.
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