David Bindman (born 1940) is

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Durning-Lawrence professor of the

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and has been a research fellow at the

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

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since 2010.

Early life

David Bindman was born in 1940. He was educated at Oxford University, Harvard University and the

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, London.

Career

Bindman is emeritus professor of the

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. In 2015, a ''

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'' was published in his honour by UCL Press, titled ''Burning Bright''.''Burning Bright: Essays in Honour of David Bindman''.
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Selected publications

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

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, 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''.

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

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

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

Early life

Career

Selected publications

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