David Bindman

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.

Early life

David Bindman was born in 1940. He was educated at Oxford University, Harvard University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.^[1]

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.^[2][3]

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

Further reading

• Burning bright: Essays in honour of David Bindman. Edited by Diana Dethloff, Tessa Murdoch and Kim Sloan, with Caroline Elam. UCL Press, London, 2015. ISBN 978-1-910634-34-9 (Free pdf download)