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David Bindman is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at University College London. He was educated at Oxford, Harvard and the Courtauld Institute, University of London. He has taught and lectured extensively in the US, and has held fellowships at Yale, National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Getty Institute, and the Du Bois Institute, Harvard. He has written mainly on British art but also on the representation of race. He is the author of Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race, 1700-1800, 2002 and has edited The History of British Art, 3 vols., 2008.
Project Description
My project consists of two parts. The first is to prepare for publication in fall 2010 five reprinted volumes and one new volume of The Image of the Black in Western Art series, of which I am general editor with Professor Gates, and the two final volumes for publication by Harvard University Press in spring 2011. This will bring to completion a great project initiated in 1960 by Dominique de Menil and which was taken over in 2006 by the Du Bois Institute. The second part is to prepare schemes for an additional volume or volumes of the series, to cover the 20th century with a view to publication 2014-15, with an accompanying major exhibition to be held in two venues in the US and possibly one in Europe. This will involve working on the conceptualization of the project, assembling a team, and preparing lists of objects for the exhibition.