Dawn Adès
{{short description|British art historian and academic (born 1943)}}
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Courtauld Institute of Art
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Josephine Dawn Adès, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FBA|size=100%|sep=,}} (née Tylden-Pattenson; born 6 May 1943), also known as Dawn Adès, is a British art historian and academic. She is professor emeritus of art history and theory at the University of Essex.{{cite web |title=Professor Dawn Ades CBE, FBA |url=https://www.essex.ac.uk/arthistory/staff/profile.aspx?ID=171 |publisher=University of Essex |accessdate=17 October 2016}}
Early life and education
Adès was born on 6 May 1943 to A. E. Tylden-Pattenson.{{cite web |title=ADÈS, Prof. (Josephine) Dawn |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U5048 |website=Who's Who 2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=7 March 2017 |date=November 2016}}{{cite web |url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/00790136/officers |title=BURLINGTON MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS LIMITED(THE) – Officers (free information from Companies House) |publisher=Government of the United Kingdom |accessdate=21 December 2016}} She studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1965. She then studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, graduating with a Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1968.{{cite web |url=http://ggili.com/es/autores/dawn-ades |title=Dawn Ades – Editorial Gustavo Gili |publisher=Ggili.com |accessdate=21 December 2016 |language=Spanish |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018211159/http://ggili.com/es/autores/dawn-ades |archive-date=18 October 2016 |url-status=dead }}
Career
Adès has spent the majority of her academic career working at the University of Essex. She was a lecturer from 1971 to 1985, a senior lecturer from 1985 to 1988, and a Reader from 1988 to 1989. She was appointed Professor of Art History and Theory in 1989, and served as head of Department of Art History and Theory between 1989 and 1992. She has since been appointed professor emeritus. For the 2009/2010 academic year, she was the Slade Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford: the lecture series she gave was titled "Surrealism and the avant-garde in Europe and the Americas".{{cite web |title=Oxford Slade Professors, 1870 to present |url=http://www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/hoa/documents/pdf/Oxford_Slade_Professors.pdf |website=History of Art Department |publisher=University of Oxford |accessdate=8 March 2017 |year=2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213123228/http://www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/hoa/documents/pdf/Oxford_Slade_Professors.pdf |archivedate=13 February 2015 }}
Adès was a trustee of the Tate Gallery from 1995 to 2005, of the National Gallery from 1998 to 2005, and of the Henry Moore Foundation from 2003 to 2013. She was a member of the council of the British Academy from 1999 to 2002. Since 2008, she has held the honorary title of Professor of the History of Art at the Royal Academy of Arts.{{cite web |title=Full list of Academicians |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/full-list-of-academicians |website=Royal Academy of Arts |accessdate=8 March 2017}}
Personal life
In 1966, the then Dawn Tylden-Pattenson married the British poet and translator Timothy Adès. Together they have three sons, one of whom is the composer, pianist and conductor Thomas Adès.{{cite web |url=http://www.timothyades.co.uk/ |title=Timothy Adès : Translator–Poet |publisher=Timothyades.co.uk |accessdate=21 December 2016}}
Honours
In 1996, Adès was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.{{cite web |title=Professor Dawn Adès |url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-dawn-ad%C3%A8s |website=British Academy |accessdate=8 March 2017 |year=2017}} She gave the 1995 Aspects of Art Lecture.{{cite web|title=Aspects of Art Lectures|website=The British Academy|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectures/listings/aspects-art-lectures/}}{{cite journal|author=Adès, Dawn|title=Marchel Duchamp and the Paradox of Modernity|volume=90|pages=129–145|journal=Proceedings of the British Academy|year=1996|url=http://publications.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/pubs/proc/files/90p129.pdf}} In the 2002 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to art history".{{London Gazette |issue= 56595 |date= 15 June 2002 |page=9 |supp=y}} In the 2013 New Year Honours, she was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "for services to higher education and art history".{{London Gazette |issue= 60367 |date= 29 December 2012 |page=7 |supp=y}}
Selected works
- {{cite book |title=Dada and surrealism reviewed |year=1978 |publisher=Arts Council of Great Britain |location=London |isbn=978-0728701496}}
- {{cite book |title=The 20th-century poster: design of the avant-garde |year=1984 |publisher=Abbeville Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0896594333 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/20thcenturyposte0000ades }}
- {{cite book |title=Photomontage |url=https://archive.org/details/photomontage0000ades |url-access=registration |year=1986 |publisher=Thames and Hudson |location=London |isbn=978-0500202081}}
- {{cite book |title=Art in Latin America: the modern era, 1820-1980 |year=1989 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=978-0300045611 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/artinlatinameric0000ades }} (with Guy Brett)
- {{cite book |title=Siron Franco - Figures and Likenesses: Paintings 1968-1995 |year=1995 |publisher=Editora Index |location=Rio de Janeiro |isbn=978-8570830463}}
- {{cite book |title=Dalí's Optical Illusions |date=2000 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=978-0300081770}}
- {{cite book |title=Dalí: The centenary retrospective |date=2004 |publisher=Thames & Hudson |location=London |isbn=978-0500093245}}
- {{cite book |title=Undercover surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents |date=2006 |publisher=MIT Press |location=London |isbn=978-0262012300}} (co-editor Simon Baker)
- {{cite book |title=The colour of my dreams: the Surrealist revolution in art |year=2011 |publisher=Vancouver Art Gallery |location=Vancouver |isbn=978-1895442878}}
- {{cite book |title=Dalí/Duchamp |date=2017 |publisher=Royal Academy of Arts |location=London |isbn=978-1910350478}} (co-editor William Jeffett)
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