David Bindman

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David Bindman (born 1940) is emeritus Durning-Lawrence professor of the history of art at University College London and has been a research fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard since 2010.

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Early life

David Bindman was born in 1940. He was educated at Oxford University, Harvard University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

Career

Bindman is emeritus professor of the history of art at University College London. In 2015, a festschrift was published in his honour by UCL Press, titled Burning Bright.

Selected publications

Blake as an artist. Phaidon, 1977. ISBN 978-0714816371

Hogarth. Thames & Hudson, London, 1981.

Shadow of the guillotine: Britain and the French Revolution. British Museum Publications, London, 1989. ISBN 0714116378

Roubiliac and the Eighteenth-Century Monument: Sculpture as Theatre. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1995. (With Malcolm Baker) ISBN 978-0300063332

Hogarth and his times: Serious comedy. British Museum Press, London, 1997. US: University of California Press.

William Blake: The complete illuminated books. Thames & Hudson, London, 2000. ISBN 0500510148

Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the idea of race in the 18th century. Cornell University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0801440854

John Flaxman: Line into contour. Ikon Gallery, 2013. ISBN 978-1904864813

References

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