Stephen Bann#
| Membership Number: | 3828 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MUSICOLOGY & ART HISTORY |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present Emeritus Professor of History of Art and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol
- 2011 - 2014 Senior Visiting Scholar, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
- 2009 Beatrix Farrand Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, DC
- 2005 Edmond J Safra Visiting Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- 2003 Senior Fellow, Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal
- 2000 - 2008 Professor of History of Art, University of Bristol
- 1988 - 2000 Professor of Modern Cultural Studies, University of Kent
- 1980 - 1988 Reader in Modern Cultural Studies, University of Kent
- 1975 - 1980 Senior Lecturer, in Modern Cultural Studies, University of Kent
- 1967 - 1975 Lecturer in History, University of Kent
Fields of Scholarship
- Connections between history of art and visual culture
- History of photography, prints, and painting (19th Century)
- Developed notion of ‘historical-mindedness’
- Paris, in the concept of ‘the poetics of the museum’
- Semiotics
- Art of collecting and the 17th century cabinet of curiosity
- Landscape history, with particular reference to Ian Hamilton Finlay
- Combination of unstinting attentiveness to detail and wider interdisciplinary openness
- Modernity in architectural study
- Modernism and Post-Modernism
Honours and Awards
- 2009 FSA (Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
- 2009 Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship
- 2004 CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
- 1998 FBA (Fellow of the British Academy)
