Professor Finbarr Barry Flood FBA
The material culture of Islamicate societies; transcultural dimensions of artistic production and reception; social functions of devotional imagery; intersections between occult and therapeutic materials; replication, technology and concepts of modernity
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2023
- Subjects
- Art history, History, Music
- Sections
- History of Art and Music
Current post
Founder-director of Silsila, Center for Material Histories
Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, New York University William R Kenan, Jr Professor of the Humanities
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Robert Hillenbrand FBA
Islamic art, with particular reference to Iran and Syria; medieval architecture, book painting and iconography
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
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
