Professor Alex Potts FBA

Aesthetics and history of sculpture, modern art and art theory, classical revivals
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2015
Subjects
Art history

Summary

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

Professor Svetlana Alpers FBA

Painting and its cultural circumstances in Europe, 1500 to the present; writing about and critical attitudes to looking at art; the practice and uses of photography

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Professor Daniel Chua FBA

Music – Beethoven, the history of absolute music, music theory and analysis, exo-musicology, global musicology, and the intersection between music, philosophy and theology

Daniel Chua FBA

Professor Steven Connor FBA

The relations between literature, technology and science and the cultural phenomenology of material life

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