Kathryn Jane Brown is a British art historian and Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at

Loughborough University Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, when L ...

Career

Educated at Seymour College, Adelaide, and the University of Adelaide, South Australia, Brown was awarded a

Rhodes Scholarship The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...

. As a Rhodes Scholar, she completed a PhD (D.Phil) at

Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...

under the supervision of

Malcolm Bowie Malcolm McNaughtan Bowie FBA (; 5 May 1943 – 28 January 2007) was a British academic, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 2002 to 2006. An acclaimed scholar of French literature, Bowie wrote several books on Marcel Proust, as well a ...

. Brown then became a private equity lawyer in the City of London. Trained at Slaughter and May, Brown worked as an associate successively at Slaughter and May and then became an associate, and later Counsel, in the London office of US law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy. She then became a partner of the US law firm Paul Hastings, LLP. Following the completion of a second PhD at the University of London Brown returned to academia as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia. She was subsequently appointed to a Lectureship in Art History at Tilburg University before moving to Loughborough. Brown is a Fellow of the

Higher Education Academy Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy) is a British charity and professional membership scheme promoting excellence in higher education. It advocates evidence-based teaching methods and awards fellowships as professional recogniti ...

. She is best known for her works on

19th-century The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolish ...

and

20th-century French art 20th-century French art developed out of the Impressionism and Post-Impressionism that dominated French art at the end of the 19th century. The first half of the 20th century in France saw the even more revolutionary experiments of Cubism, Dada ...

, modernism, artists’ books,

museology Museology or museum studies is the study of museums. It explores the history of museums and their role in society, as well as the activities they engage in, including curating, preservation, public programming, and education. Terminology The w ...

, and the art market with a particular focus on the works of Degas, Matisse and Tzara.

Books

*
Matisse: A Critical Life
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Matisse’s Poets: Critical Performance in the Artist’s Book
', Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 * '' Women Readers in French Painting 1870–1890'', Ashgate, 2012

Edited

* ''The Art Book Tradition in Twentieth-Century Europe'', Ashgate, 2013 * ''Interactive Contemporary Art: Participation in Practice'', I.B. Tauris, 2014 * ''Perspectives on Degas'', Routledge, 2017

References

External links

Personal Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Kathryn Academics of Loughborough University Academic staff of Tilburg University Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London Australian Rhodes Scholars British art critics British art historians British women academics British women art critics Fellows of the Higher Education Academy French art critics French women art critics French women historians Living people British women art historians Year of birth missing (living people)