Background

Tamar Garb was born in 1956 in Jerusalem, Israel, in the family of Werner and Cynthia Hammerschlag. She took her stepfather’s name when her mother married Ivor Garb.

Education

Garb attended the Michaelis School of Fine Art, at the University of Cape Town, receiving a BA in Art in 1978. Moving to London soon after, she received her MA in 1982, and her PhD in 1991, both in Art History, from the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Career

Tamar worked at the Courtauld as lecturer from 1988 to 1989, and has taught at UCL since 1989, where she was promoted in 2001 to professor. In 2014 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

Achievements

• Garb is famous for organizing several art exhibitions, including Reisemalheurs at the Freud Museum in London in 2007, and Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2011.

Works

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  • Bodies of Modernity: Figure and Flesh in Fin-de-Siecle France (Interplay) 1998
  • Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Modern Art Practices and Debates) 1993
  • The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914 2007
  • Gauguin: Maker of Myth 2010
  • Women Impressionists 1986
  • The Jew in the Text: Modernity and the Construction of Identity 1996
  • Christian Boltanski (Contemporary Artists) 1997
  • Sisters of the Brush: Women`s Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris 1994

Membership

• Association of Art Historians

• Association International des Critiques d’Art

Interests

• Cooking, theater, movies, dining out, friendships

Connections

On July, 1982, Tamar married a journalist Rasaad Jamie. They have a child Gabriel Jamie.

Father:

Werner Hammerschlag

Mother:

Cynthia Hammerschlag

child:

Gabriel Jamie

stepfather:

Ivor Garb

husband:

Rasaad Jamie