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

Professor John Mack FBA

The anthropology and history of art and material culture, especially in equatorial Africa and the western Indian Ocean; comparative work on themes such as memory, miniaturisation, and the experience of the environment

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Professor Jennifer L Roberts FBA

Art history and material culture of North America and Europe, 18th century to the present; history and theory of print; intersections between the visual arts and the natural sciences.

Jennifer Roberts FBA

Professor Esther Leslie FBA

Aesthetics in combination with politics; Marxism and critical theory, especially the work of Walter Benjamin and TW Adorno; the poetics of science and technology; animation; digital culture and the sensorium

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