- Marcia Pointon
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Marcia Pointon, an historian of British art, was trained at the University of Manchester, receiving her PhD there in 1974. From 1975 she was at the University of Sussex, becoming Professor of the History of Art in 1989. In 1992 she moved to the University of Manchester to take the Pilkington Professorship in the History of Art, a position she held until 2002. She now works as a free-lance consultant and researcher.[1]
Pointon is a prolific author, widely recognized as one of the leading scholars of British art. She has written fourteen books and numerous scholarly articles and reviews. Her innovative approach to the subject emerged with her book Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting[2] and developed further with Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England.[3] Continuing her exploration of the semiotics of the body, Pointon has recently published Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery, an insightful study of personal adornment in western culture.[4]
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References
- ^ See http://www.marciapointon.org
- ^ Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting 1830-1906, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
- ^ Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England, Yale University Press, 1993.
- ^ Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-300-14278-5. For a review see Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 44, Number 2, Winter 2011 E-ISSN: 1086-315X Print ISSN: 0013-2586; http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/eighteenth-century_studies/v044/44.2.batchelor.pdf
Categories:- Art historians
- British art historians
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