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Professor Alex Potts FBA

Aesthetics and history of sculpture, modern art and art theory, classical revivals

Elected 2015

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2015
Sections
History of Art and Music
Website
https://lsa.umich.edu/histart/people/emeriti-faculty/adpotts.html

Appointments: Professor of History of Art, University of Michigan 2002 to present Professor of History of Art, University of Reading 1996-2002

Current post

Max Loehr Collegiate Professor of History of Art, University of Michigan

Publications

The Image Valued “As Found” and the Reconfiguring of Mimesis in Postwar Art Art History Vol 37, No.4, 2014

Flesh and the Ideal. Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History 1994, paperback 2000

The Sculptural Imagination. Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist 2000

Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making, Politics and the Everyday in Postwar European and American Art, 2013

Visual Conditions of Pictorial Meaning Michael Baxandall, Vision and the Work of Words 2015

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Dame Rosalind Savill FBA

Western Europe France History of a specific country France Applied and Decorative Arts, and Craft History of Art

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Professor John Mack FBA

The anthropology and history of art and material culture, especially in equatorial Africa and the western Indian Ocean; comparative work on themes such as memory, miniaturisation, and the experience of the environment

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Professor Timothy Clark FBA

Western Europe France History of Art Modernism Critical and Cultural Theory - History of Art

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