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Professor Jonathan Alexander FBA

History of Art
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1985
Subjects
Art history
Sections
History of Art and Music
Website
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/people/faculty/alexander.htm

Current post

Sherman Fairchild Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts, New York University

Past appointments

New York University Professor of Fine Arts

1988 -

University of Manchester Lecturer, Reader in History of Art

1971 - 1987

Publications

Norman illumination at Mont St Michel c 966-1100 1970

Insular MSS 6th-9th century (Survey of MSS illuminated in the British Isles, vol 1) 1978

Medieval illuminators and their methods of work 1992

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 Alex Potts FBA

Aesthetics and history of sculpture, modern art and art theory, classical revivals

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Professor Svetlana Alpers FBA

Painting and its cultural circumstances in Europe, 1500 to the present; writing about and critical attitudes to looking at art; the practice and uses of photography

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