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David Bindman is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at University College London. He was educated at Oxford, Harvard and the Courtauld Institute, University of London. He has taught and lectured extensively in the US, and has held fellowships at Yale, National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Getty Institute, and the Du Bois Institute, Harvard. He has written mainly on British art but also on the representation of race. He is the author of Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race, 1700-1800, 2002 and has edited The History of British Art, 3 vols., 2008.
Project Description
The first four books in the series The Image of the Black in Western Art are due for publication in November 2010, followed by the remaining four in 2011. My work on these will almost be done by the time I arrive at Harvard for the fall semester, which will enable me to work fully on the last two books in the series which will cover the 20th century and are due for publication 2014-15. This will involve me in detailed planning and recruitment of contributors but above all in shaping the project, which i expect to evolve through discussion with the other fellows and staff at the Du Bois Institute and in the wider Harvard community. I hope by the end of the semester to have the two volumes clearly framed with only the writing to be done.
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The Image of the Black in Western Art Archive and Research Project