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Article: Christine Tamblyn, 1951-1998. (artist and art critic)(Obituary)
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- Afterimage
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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Artist and critic Christine Tamblyn died of breast cancer at the age of 46 on New Year's Day at her home in San Francisco. Committed to feminist politics and interdisciplinary experimentation, Christine achieved an international reputation for her work in critical writing, performance, video and digital media. Colleagues and students regarded her as an innovative scholar and a compassionate educator, who possessed an uncanny ability for conveying complicated issues with clarity and humor.
I first came to know Christine in the early 1980s, when I was an editor at Afterimage. Poignant in this context, she approached the journal about writing an obituary of a friend who ...