Michael Hatt (born 1960) is professor of

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at the

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. He has served there since 2007, before which he was head of research at the

Yale Center for British Art Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the worl ...

. He is the author with

Charlotte Klonk Charlotte Klonk is a German art historian. Klonk is most notable for her work on English landscape art in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, as well as for her work on museum interiors, particularly the white cube. She is currently ...

of ''Art History: A Critical Introduction to Its Methods'' (2006), and editor with Morna O'Neill of ''The Edwardian Sense: Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901–1910'' (2010). In 2014, he co-curated ''Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837–1901'', an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art that transferred to

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in 2015.

Career

Hatt completed his BA in art history at

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, University of London, while working as a

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. He later received his PhD in art history from the same institution, where he taught courses from 1991 to 2000. He then took a teaching position at the

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. He is the author with Charlotte Klonk of ''Art History: A Critical Introduction to Its Methods'' (2006), and editor with Morna O'Neill of ''The Edwardian Sense: Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901–1910'' (2010). He was a co-curator with Jason Edwards and Martina Droth, of '' Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837–1901'', an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art in 2014 that transferred to

in 2015. The exhibition was the first to examine the creation and viewing of British sculpture of the

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and was the result of new ideas that the curators had developed over a number of years about Victorian sculpture. In a review of the exhibition for ''19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century'', Clare Walker Gore praised Hatt and Edwards for not pandering to modern taste in sculpture by including only those works that modern critics approve of, "choosing instead to showcase a broad range of works, ranging from those likely to charm modern viewers to those likely to appal, and often placing them side by side." Philip Ward-Jackson in '' Sculpture Journal'', however, criticised the curator's selection of objects and accompanying catalogue which he felt had a lack of coherence due to being jointly written. Hatt is professor of the history of art at the University of Warwick where he specialises in nineteenth-century British and American art, focussing on gender, sexuality, and visual racism. He is also interested in

Danish art Danish art is the visual arts produced in Denmark or by Danish artists. It goes back thousands of years with significant artifacts from the 2nd millennium BC, such as the Trundholm sun chariot. For many early periods, it is usually considered ...

and the history of art history.

Selected publications

Books

*''Art History: A Critical Introduction to Its Methods''.

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, Manchester, 2006. (With

) *''Britain in the World: Highlights from the Yale Center for British Art in Honor of Amy Meyers''. Yale University Press, 2019. (With Martina Droth & Nathan Flis)

Edited volumes

*''The Edwardian Sense: Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901–1910''. Yale Center for British Art, 2010. (Edited with Morna O'Neill)Reviews of ''The Edwardian Sense'': * * *

Journal articles and book chapters

*"Thoughts and Things: Sculpture and the Victorian Nude" in Alison Smith (Ed.) (2002) ''Exposed: The Victorian Nude''. New York: Watson-Guptill. pp. 36-49. *"Uranians and Imperialists", in eds. Timothy Barringer, Douglas Fordham, and

Geoffrey Quilley Geoffrey Quilley (born is professor of art history at the University of Sussex. He was previously curator of fine art at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and before that lecturer at the University of Leicester. Quilley studied at the Univ ...

, ''Art and the British Empire'', Manchester University Press, 2007. *"Space, Surface, Self: Homosexuality and the Aesthetic Interior", ''

Visual Culture in Britain ''Visual Culture in Britain'' is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering visual culture in Great Britain published by Taylor & Francis. It is abstracted and indexed by the British Humanities Index and the International Index to the Perf ...

'', Vol. 8, No. 1, Summer 2007, pp. 105–128. *"A Great Sight: Henry Scott Tuke and His Models", in eds. Jane Desmarais,

Martin Postle Martin Postle is a British art historian who is deputy director for collections and publications at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, and a leading expert on the art of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He is a former curator at the ...

, and William Vaughan, ''Models and Supermodels: The Artist's Model in Britain'',

, 2006, pp. 89–104. *"Near and Far: Hamo Thornycroft's Mower and the Homoerotics of Labour", ''

Art History Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

'', Vol. 26, No. 1, 2003, pp. 26–55.

References

External links

Michael Hatt – England arise! Carpenter, Ashbee and the Visual Culture of Song in Late-Nineteenth-Century England.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hatt, Michael Academics of the University of Warwick Academics of the University of Nottingham Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London Living people 1960 births British art historians