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
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2014
Subjects
Art history

Current post

University of California, Berkeley Professor Emerita, Department of the History of Art

New York University Visiting Scholar, Department of Art History

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Simon Frith FBA

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

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Professor Paul Binski FBA

Western European art and architecture 1100-1400; royal and ecclesiastical patronage; the art of liturgy and death; hagiography; wall, panel and manuscript painting; Cambridge illuminated manuscripts; international artistic relations.

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Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu FBA

Modern and Contemporary African and African Diaspora Art; Classical and traditional African Art; Postcolonial theory and Art criticism; Art and politics

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