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Robert Rosenblum was an American art historian and
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known for his influential and often irreverent scholarship on European and American art of the mid-eighteenth to 20th century.
Rosenblum was born in
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July 24, 1927 and he died December 6, 2006. He studied art history at Queens College and
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, and in 1956 received his Ph.D. from
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's Institute of Fine Arts.
Rosenblum's many important publications include
Cubism and Twentieth Century Art (1960),
Transformations in Late Eighteenth Century Art (1967)
Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition: Friedrich to Rothko (1973), and
Nineteenth Century Art (co-authored with H.W. Janson, 1984). However, he is perhaps best known for his innovations in curatorial practice, notably his inclusion of non-canonical works and his rejection of standard chronological ordering.
Rosenblum held teaching positions at
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, the
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,
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, Oxford University and the Institute of Fine Arts at
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. He was also the
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Curator of Twentieth-Century Art at the
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