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 Richard Widdess FBA

Musicology of South Asia, including history, theory, analysis and social context of music in North India and Nepal; music and religion in South Asia; analysis of world music; music cognition, performance and meaning in oral traditions

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Professor Kathryn M. Rudy FBA

Medieval manuscripts and their functions; technical approaches to the reception of manuscripts; creativity and inventiveness

Kathryn Rudy FBA

Professor Elżbieta Witkowska-Zaremba FBA

History of music and music theory focused on Latin texts of the late Middle Ages and early modern era; the reception of the ancient writings on music up to 1600

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