Professor Timothy Clark FBA
- 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 Jonathan Cross FBA
History, aesthetics and reception of European music of the 20th and 21st centuries; modernisms; spectral music; music theory and analysis
Professor Roberta Gilchrist FBA
Medieval and social archaeology, particularly gender and religion; burial, magic and religious communities, including nunneries, monasteries, hospitals, Norwich Cathedral and Glastonbury Abbey
Professor Martin Kemp FBA
Now full-time writing, speaking and broadcasting on art and science, especially Leonardo da Vinci.
