David Bindman

David Bindman (1940-2025) was 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 (formerly W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute) at Harvard University 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.[http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/david-bindman David Bindman.] Image of the Black Archive & Library, Hutchins Center. Retrieved 29 May 2016.

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.[https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/ucl-press-news/burning-bright-celebrating-david-bindman Burning Bright: Celebrating David Bindman's Extraordinary Career] UCL Press. Retrieved 29 May 2016.[https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/burning-bright/index Burning Bright: Essays in Honour of David Bindman.] UCL Press. Retrieved 29 May 2016.

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}}

David Bindman

Early life

Career

Selected publications

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Further reading