Amelia Jones is an American art historian

Art history

Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...

, art critic

Art critic

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 and curator

Curator

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 specializing in feminist art, body/performance art

Performance art

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, video art

Video art

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 and Dadaism. Her written works and approach to modern and contemporary art

Contemporary art

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 history are considered revolutionary in that she breaks down commonly assumed opinions and offers critiques of the art historical tradition

Art history

Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...

 and individual artist's positions in that often elitist sphere.

Background

Amelia Jones, the daughter of Princeton

Princeton University

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 Psychology professor Edward E. Jones

Edward E. Jones

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, studied art history at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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. She received her PhD

PHD

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 from UCLA in 1991.

Career

Jones has taught art history at UC Riverside, University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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, the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, and was formerly the Pilkington Chair of the art history department at the University of Manchester

University of Manchester

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. She has also worked as a visiting professor at Maine College of Art

Maine College of Art

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, Texas Christian University

Texas Christian University

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, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Washington University, St. Louis and is currently a professor and the Grierson Chair in Visual Culture in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University

McGill University

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Amelia Jones curated the 1996 exhibition, "Sexual Politics" at the Armand Hammer Museum. In 1991, she curated "The politics of difference: artists explore issues of identity" at the UCR/Chandler Art Museum.