Professor Timothy Clark FBA
Western Europe France
History of Art Modernism
Critical and Cultural Theory - History of Art
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2001
- Subjects
- Art history
- Sections
- History of Art and Music
Summary
Born 1943. Art historian and writer. Taught in various places in U.K. and U.S., notably U C Berkeley, where he is now professor emeritus. Author of a series of books on the formal character and social circumstances of modern art, as well as the nature of 'depiction' and of human response to complex pictorial orderings. Currently working on two books, a study of certain painters' imagining of 'heaven on earth' or 'the world to come', and a set of essays on Cezanne.
Current post
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
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
Professor Julian Johnson FBA
Music history and aesthetics, 1800 to the present; modernity and modernism; Mahler, Debussy, Second Viennese School; music and philosophy
