Marcia Pointon

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Marcia Rachel Pointon (* 1943 ) is a British art historian , journalist and emeritus professor .

life and work

Marcia Pointon studied art history and English literature at the University of Manchester , where she received her Masters in 1967 and PhD in 1974 . In 2003 she received another PhD. She was appointed professor of art history at the University of Sussex in 1989. From 1992 until her retirement, Pointon Pilkington was Professor of Art History at the University of Manchester.

Pointon is a member of the Research Forum of the Courtauld Institute of Art , the Public Catalog Foundation and the Oil Paintings Expert Network at the University of Glasgow .

As a writer, she is dedicated to the history of British art, portraits , landscape , the representation of the body, gender studies and the cultural history of jewelry.

Pointon has been freelance since 2002 and lives in London and Tuscany .

title

  • Professor Emeritus, The University of Manchester
  • Research Fellow, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
  • Senior Research Professor, Norwich University of the Arts
  • Honory Professor, University of Brighton

Awards

  • 2011 Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art, author's grant
  • 2008 Leverhulme Research Fellow, National Portrait Gallery, London
  • 2006 Senior Research Fellow, Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art
  • 2005 Fellowship Getty Research Center, Los Angeles
  • 2004 Fellowship, Yale Center for British Art
  • 2004 Visiting Fellow, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA

Publications (selection)

  • Portrayal and the Search for Identity. Reaction Books, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-78023-041-2 .
  • Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewelery. Yale University Press, New Haven / London 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-14278-5
  • William Hogarth 's "Sigismunda" in Focus. Tate Publishing, London 2000.
  • Strategies for Showing: Women, Possession and Representation in English Visual Culture 1650–1800. OUP, Oxford 1997, p. 439 M.
  • Art Apart: Art Institutions and Ideology across England and North America. Manchester University Press, 1994.
  • Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England. Yale University Press, 1993.
  • with K. Adler (Ed.): The Body Imaged: Representation and the Human Body since the Renaissance. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  • Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting 1830–1906. Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. 160.
  • Pre-Raphaelities Re-viewed. Manchester University Press, 1989 (with contributions by Pointon: introd. And two chapters), p. 168.
  • with William Mulready: Victoria and Albert Museum . 1986.
  • Bonington , Francia and William Wyld. Batsford Books in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986, p. 191.
  • Bonington Circle: English Watercolor and Anglo-French Landscape, 1790-1855. The Hendon Press, 1985, p. 164.
  • History of Art: A Students' Handbook. 1980, ISBN 0-415-15181-3 .
  • William Dyce RA 1806-64. A Critical Biography. Oxford University Press, 1979, p. 229.
  • Milton and English Art. Manchester University Press, 1970, p. 276.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website: Marcia Pointon ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marciapointon.org
  2. ^ Courtauld Institute of Art: Research Forum ( Memento of May 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Australian National University Marcia Pointon
  4. ^ Yale University Press: Brilliant Effects A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewelery.
personal data
SURNAME Pointon, Marcia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pointon, Marcia Rachel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British art historian and professor emeritus
DATE OF BIRTH 1943