David Bindman (1940–2025) was

emeritus ''Emeritus/Emerita'' () is an honorary title granted to someone who retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus". In some c ...

Durning-Lawrence professor of the

history of art The history of art focuses on objects made by humans for any number of spiritual, narrative, philosophical, symbolic, conceptual, documentary, decorative, and even functional and other purposes, but with a primary emphasis on its aesthetics ...

University College London University College London (Trade name, branded as UCL) is a Public university, public research university in London, England. It is a Member institutions of the University of London, member institution of the Federal university, federal Uni ...

and has been a research fellow at the

Hutchins Center for African & African American Research The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, also known as the Hutchins Center, is affiliated with Harvard University. The Center supports scholarly research on the history and culture of people of African descent around the world ...

(formerly W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute) at

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

since 2006. He was the brother of human rights lawyer Geoffrey Bindman.

Early life

David Bindman was born in 1940. He was educated at

Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ...

, Harvard University and the

Courtauld Institute of Art The Courtauld Institute of Art (), commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation. The art collection is known particularly for ...

, London.

Career

Bindman was emeritus professor of the

. In 2015, a ''

festschrift In academia, a ''Festschrift'' (; plural, ''Festschriften'' ) is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during their lifetime. It generally takes the form of an edited volume, containing contributions from the h ...

'' was published in his honour by UCL Press, titled ''Burning Bright''.''Burning Bright: Essays in Honour of David Bindman''
UCL Press. Retrieved 29 May 2016.

Selected publications

*''Blake as an artist''. Phaidon, 1977. *''Hogarth''.

Thames & Hudson Thames & Hudson (sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books in all visually creative categories: art, architecture, design, photography, fashion, film, and the performing arts. It also publishes books on archaeology, history, ...

, London, 1981. *''Shadow of the guillotine: Britain and the French Revolution''. British Museum Publications, London, 1989. *''Roubiliac and the Eighteenth-Century Monument: Sculpture as Theatre''.

Yale University Press Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day and Clarence Day, grandsons of Benjamin Day, and became a department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and ope ...

, New Haven, 1995. (With Malcolm Baker) *''Hogarth and his times: Serious comedy''. British Museum Press, London, 1997. US:

University of California Press The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish scholarly and scientific works by faculty ...

. *''William Blake: The complete illuminated books''. Thames & Hudson, London, 2000. *''Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the idea of race in the 18th century''.

Cornell University Press The Cornell University Press is the university press of Cornell University, an Ivy League university in Ithaca, New York. It is currently housed in Sage House, the former residence of Henry William Sage. It was first established in 1869, maki ...

, 2002. *''John Flaxman: Line into contour''. Ikon Gallery, 2013.

References

External links

* Luke Syson
"‘A revolutionary flame burned bright within him’: David Bindman (1940–2025)"
''

Apollo Apollo is one of the Twelve Olympians, Olympian deities in Ancient Greek religion, ancient Greek and Ancient Roman religion, Roman religion and Greek mythology, Greek and Roman mythology. Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, mu ...

, 12 June 2020. 1940 births 2025 deaths Academics of University College London Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art Alumni of the University of Oxford English art historians Harvard University alumni {{academic-stub

Early life

Career

Selected publications

References

Further reading

External links