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 Lisa Tickner FBA

History of British art in the late 19th and 20th centuries, including the imagery of the suffrage campaign, early 20th-century British modernism, art education, and the London art world in the 1960s.

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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

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Professor Timothy Clark FBA

Western Europe France History of Art Modernism Critical and Cultural Theory - History of Art

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