Tim Benton
{{Short description|British art historian}}
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Tim Benton (born 21 June 1945, Rome{{Cite web|url=https://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/tim-benton|title = Tim Benton|date = 20 April 2016}}) is Professor Emeritus in the History of Art at the Open University in the UK{{Cite web|title=Professor Tim Benton {{!}} OU people profiles|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/people/tjb3|access-date=2020-08-15|website=www.open.ac.uk}} as well as a writer and broadcaster. He has also taught at Columbia University, Williams College, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.{{Cite web|title=Tim Benton / Persons / The Berlage|url=http://www.theberlage.nl/persons/tim_benton|access-date=2020-08-06|website=www.theberlage.nl|language=en}} He has written extensively on the modernist architect Le Corbusier.{{Cite web |url= http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-nb2006-9930|title=Benton, Tim |accessdate=25 May 2010 |author= |author-link= |date= |year= |format= |publisher=WorldCat Identities |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |quote= }}{{Cite web|title=Tim Benton, Professor of Art History (Emeritus)|url=https://www.iconichouses.org/news/5-questions-for-tim-benton|access-date=2020-08-04|website=www.iconichouses.org|language=en}} A large collection of photographs by Tim Benton is held in the Courtauld Institute of Art's Conway Library archive,{{Cite web|title=Tim Benton Archives|url=http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/category/conway-photographers/tim-benton-conway-photographers/|access-date=2020-08-04|website=Digital Media}}{{Cite web|title=A&A {{!}} Search Results|url=http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/search/results.html?n=31&qs=tim%20benton|access-date=2020-08-14|website=www.artandarchitecture.org.uk}} which is currently undergoing a digitisation project.{{Cite web|date=2020-06-30|title=Who made the Conway Library?|url=http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/06/30/who-made-the-conway-library/|access-date=2020-08-14|website=Digital Media}}
Education
Tim Benton was educated at the University of Cambridge and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.{{Cite web|date=2016-04-20|title=Tim Benton|url=https://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/tim-benton|access-date=2020-08-04|website=Lars Müller Publishers}}
Professional memberships
Benton is a member of the Association for the preservation of "E-1027" designed by Eileen Gray with murals added by Le Corbusier. The site includes Le Corbusier's holiday home ("Cabanon de vacances") and the Etoile de Mer restaurant, in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France.
Bibliography
His writings include:
- Benton, Tim. Le Corbusier conférencier, Editions Le Moniteur, 2007. This book won the 2008 Prix National du Livre awarded by the Académie d'Architecture in France.
- Benton, Tim. The Villas of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret 1920-1930, Birkhäuser and Editions de La Villette, 2007
- Benton, Tim. The Modernist Home, V&A Publications, 2006
- Benton, Tim. Le Corbusier: La Villa La Roche
- Benton, Tim. Villa Savoye and the Architect's Practice
- Benton, Tim. From the Arengario to the Lictor's Axe: Memories of Italian Fascism
- Benton, Tim. Humanism and Fascism
- Benton, Tim. The little "maison de weekend" and the Parisian suburbs
- Benton, Tim. From Jeanneret to Le Corbusier: Rusting Iron, bricks and coal and the modern Utopia
- Benton, Tim. Pessac and Lège revisited: standards, dimensions and failures
- Benton, Tim. Charlotte Perriand: Les années Le Corbusier
- Benton, Tim. Representing Modernism
Exhibitions and exhibition catalogues
- Benton, Tim. Thirties: British Art and Design Before the War. (co-curator)
- Benton, Tim. Le Corbusier: Architect of the Century. (co-curator)
- Benton, Tim. Le Corbusier.: La Ricerca Paziente. (co-curator)
- Benton, Tim. Le Corbusier et la Mediterrannée. (co-curator)
- Benton, Tim. Art and Power: Europe Under the Dictators 1930–1945. (co-curator)
- Benton, Tim. Art Deco (co-curator and co-editor of the catalogue) and Modernism: Designing a New World.{{cite web |title=Surreal Things: Surrealism and design, 11 - 12 May 2007 |url=http://media.vam.ac.uk/media/documents/legacy_documents/file_upload/36471_file.pdf |access-date=7 July 2024}}
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Category:British art historians
Category:Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art
Category:Academics of the Open University
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge