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
Sections: History of Art and Music
Website: https://lsa.umich.edu/histart/people/emeriti-faculty/adpotts.html

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 Kobena Mercer FBA

Modern and contemporary art history of the Black Atlantic, including photography and film; cultural studies of race, ethnicity and diaspora; black/queer intersections; psychoanalysis and postcolonial identities

Professor Martin Clayton FBA

Rhythm and tala in Indian music; entrainment, embodiment and interpersonal interaction in music performance; ethnography, history, psychology and computing in the analysis of music performance

Professor Clare Harris FBA

Art, photography, museums and material culture of Tibet, the Tibetan diaspora and India. Anthropological, art historical and curatorial research on the representation of Tibet internationally in the past and present

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