Professor Lisa Tickner FBA

History of British art in the late 19th and 20th centuries, including the imagery of the suffrage campaign, early 20th-century British modernism, art education, and the London art world in the 1960s.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2008
Subjects
Art history

Summary

Lisa Tickner is Honorary Professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she was Visiting Professor from 2007-2014, and Emeritus Professor of Art History at Middlesex University. She is a Trustee of the Art Fund (2010-) and a member of the publications committee of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (2004-10, 2012-). She has served on the Blue Plaques Panel of English Heritage (2007-15), on the Steering Committee for Tate's Leverhulme-funded research project, Art School Educated: Curriculum Change in UK Art Schools 1960-2010 (2008-14), on the Humanities Research Board (now the AHRC, 1994-97), on the British National Committee of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (1993-2001), and on the Paul Mellon Advisory Council (1993-8). She gave the Paul Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery in London and at the Yale Center for British Art in 1996. Lisa Tickner has been a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for British Art (1990), Kreeger-Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor at Northwestern University (1991), Visiting Fellow at the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute (2007), and Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow 2016-2018.

Current post

Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London Honorary Professor

Middlesex University Professor Emerita of Art History

Past appointments

Courtauld Institute of Art University of London Visiting Professor

2007 - 2014

Middlesex University Professor of Art History

1992 - 2007

Middlesex University Reader in Art History

1988 - 1992

Hornsey College of Art (absorbed into Middlesex Polytechnic 1973, which became Middlesex University 1992) Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Principal Lecturer

1968 - 1988

Publications

London’s New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s

Lisa Tickner - Published in 2020 by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; Yale University Press

British Art in the Cultural Field, 1939-1969

Co-edited by Lisa Tickner and David Peters Corbett - Published in 2012 by Wiley Blackwell

Hornsey 1968: The Art School Revolution

Lisa Tickner - Published in 2008 by Frances Lincoln

'Mediating Generation: The Mother-Daughter Plot', in Women Artists at the Millennium

Edited by Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher - Published in 2006 by MIT Press

Modern Life & Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century

Lisa Tickner - Published in 2000 by Yale University Press

The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign

Lisa Tickner - Published in 1987 by Chatto & Windus; Chicago University Press

What is art history?

18 Nov 2019 Professor Lisa Tickner FBA

Professor Lisa Tickner FBA explains the development of art history as an academic discipline and the questions it asks of the world around us.

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