Dora Jane Janson Explained
Dora Jane Janson, née Heineberg (1916-2002) was an American art historian, who collaborated with her husband Horst W. Janson.[1]
Life
Dora Jane Heineberg was born in Philadelphia.[1] She studied art history at Radcliffe College, where she met Horst W. Janson, an émigré graduate student at Harvard University.[2] The couple married after he had gained his PhD in 1941. Janson "never denied that she consciously sacrificed her career to raise children".[1] She helped her husband with his 1952 monograph Apes and Ape Lore in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, providing an "exemplary index".[3] She also collaborated as co-author with her husband on The Story of Painting for Young People (1954) and History of Art (1962). History of Art entirely excluded women painters.[4]
Dora Janson's From slave to siren (1971), an extensive catalog of a Duke University Museum of Art exhibition on Victorian women's jewellery, related the jewelry to changing 19th-century ideals of feminine beauty and behaviour,[5] reflected in cameo portraiture.[6]
Janson died in Devon, Pennsylvania. Her son Anthony Janson is also an art historian.[1]
Works
- (with H. W. Janson) The picture history of painting: from cave painting to modern times, 1957
- (ed. with H. W. Janson) Key monuments of the history of art: a visual survey, 1959
- (with H. W. Janson) History of art: a survey of the major visual arts from the dawn of history to the present day, 1962
- (with H. W. Janson and Joseph Kerman) A history of art and music, 1968
- From slave to siren: the Victorian woman and her jewelry, from neoclassic to art nouveau, 1971
- (with Hugh Johnson and David Revere McFadden) Wine, celebration and ceremony, 1985
Notes and References
- http://arthistorians.info/jansond Janson, Dora Jane
- Elizabeth Sears and Charlotte Schoell-Glass, 'An Émigré Art Historian and America: H. W. Janson', The Art Bulletin, Vol. 95. No. 2 (June 2013), pp.219-242
- 'Notes on Publications', Renaissance News, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 1952).
- Book: D. Fairchild Ruggles. Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand: Making Art and Architecture in Modern India. 2014. Zubaan. 978-93-83074-78-5. 13.
- Book: Gabriel P. Weisberg. Elizabeth K. Menon. Art Nouveau: A Research Guide for Design Reform in France, Belgium, England, and the United States. 2013. Routledge. 978-1-135-02313-3. 92.
- Book: Jean Arnold. Victorian Jewelry, Identity, and the Novel: Prisms of Culture. 2011. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 978-1-4094-2127-6. 107.
