Background
Lynne Ann Munson was born on March 20, 1968, in Heidelberg, Germany, to Gordon Carl and Linda Jean (Guidarini) Munson. In 1969, her family moved to the United States.
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Lynne studied at Northwestern University.
Lynne Munson
Lynne Munson
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Lynne studied at Hinsdale Central High School.
(Exploring the culture of intolerance that overtook the ar...)
Exploring the culture of intolerance that overtook the art world in the postmodern era, Lynne Munson shows how a new dogmatism established itself in the NEA, museums, academia, and even the artist's studio, where experimental art was favored at the expense of the traditional, and limits placed on what might be funded, exhibited, studied, and created.
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Lynne Ann Munson was born on March 20, 1968, in Heidelberg, Germany, to Gordon Carl and Linda Jean (Guidarini) Munson. In 1969, her family moved to the United States.
From 1982 to 1986, Lynne studied at Hinsdale Central High School. She then enrolled in Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, where she received a Bachelor in Art History in 1990.
From 1990 until 1993, Lynne Munson served as a special assistant to Lynne Cheney, chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities. From 1993 to 2001 Lynne was a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where she wrote Exhibitionism: Art in an Era of Intolerance, a book examining the evolution of art institutions and art education. In 1996, she was a domestic policy deputy director at Dole for President.
In 2004, she represented the United States at UNESCO meetings in Australia and Japan, where she helped to negotiate guidelines for cross-border higher education. In 2005 Lynne led the first post-conflict United States government delegation to Afghanistan to deal with issues of cultural reconstruction.
Lynne also was deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in 2001–2005, overseeing all agency operations. Lynne was the architect of "Picturing America," the most successful public humanities project in NEH history. The project put more than 75,000 sets of fine art images and teaching guides into libraries, K-12 classrooms, and Head Start centers.
Lynne has served as CEO, president, and executive director of Great Minds since its founding in 2007.
Lynne has written on contemporary cultural and educational issues for numerous national publications and also has appeared on CNN, FoxNews, CNBC, C-SPAN, and NPR. She also speaks to scholarly and public audiences. She serves on the advisory board for the Pioneer Institute’s Center for School Reform.
(Exploring the culture of intolerance that overtook the ar...)
2000Munson’s first book, Exhibitionism: Art in the Era of Intolerance, chronicles the way that the National Endowment for the Arts and academic art history programs - especially Harvard University’s - have contributed to the move away from traditional representational art and toward postmodern performance art. The impetus for Munson to write this book was her fruitless search for a graduate-level art history program to attend in the mid-1990s.
As Munson sees it, connoisseurship - the notion that there is such a thing as "good" art and that the appreciation of "good" art must be learned and is therefore not equally accessible to all - was once the foundation of the fine art world. However, the current postmodern art establishment is instead based on the idea that art should be for everyone and not just for specialists and that art should be judged by its political rather than its aesthetic value. The "intolerance" mentioned in the title is the intolerance of this current artistic establishment for the traditional concepts of aesthetic quality and connoisseurship.
On May 23, 2000, Lynne married R. Edward Six III, a nuclear physicist.