About the Author

Betty Ann Brown is an art historian, critic and curator. She received a Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in 1977, where she studied Pre-Columbian art. Brown has worked as a contributing editor for Arts and Artweek and the Los Angeles Reader, has written frequently for Artscene and was founding editor of Visions, the Los Angeles art quarterly. Her "Gradivaís Mirror: Reflections on Women, Surrealism & Art History," a series of essays on Surrealist artists, won the 2003 Cal State Northridge Award for Outstanding Scholarly Publication. Brown is currently working on a textbook titled "Art & Mass Media" (Kendall Hunt Publishers) and teaches art history at Cal State University Northridge.