Professor Briony Fer FBA

Modern and contemporary art; abstraction; special interests in the legacies of the constructive avant-gardes and in contemporary art; the relationship between art and theory; new critical perspectives on art
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2015
Subjects
Art history

Current post

Professor of Art History, University College London

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Sir Nicholas Penny FBA

Italian painting of the sixteenth century; European Sculpture 1480-1920; the history of the collecting and display of European art.

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Professor Mark Crinson FBA

Architectural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially in relation to empire, industrialisation, and the welfare state. Also, the historiography of architectural history and its interdisciplinary connections

Mark Crinson FBA

Professor Simon Frith FBA

The sociology of music; popular music history, music policy & the analysis of music business & culture

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