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Hannah Luxton is an artist, curator and writer.

Education and career
She studied at the Slade School of Art

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. She 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.

Works

 * Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography (London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 2011)
 * The Body in Time; Figures of Femininity in Late Nineteenth-Century France (University of Washington Press, 2008)
 * Home Lands – Land Marks; Contemporary Art from South Africa (London: Haunch of Venison, 2008)
 * The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France 1814–1914 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)
 * Bodies of Modernity, Figure and Flesh in Fin de Siècle France (Thames & Hudson, 1998)
 * The Unquiet Image: The Paintings of Vivienne Koorland (1998)
 * Sisters of the Brush: Women’s Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth Century Paris (Yale University Press, 1994)