About Stephen Bann

This collection explores the writings of Stephen Bann, a leading art historian with an international reputation for his studies of the visual arts and cultural theory. Contributors reflect on Bann's work in terms of their own intellectual formation, offering an active engagement with writings which have shaped and continue to inform visual studies, art history, studies of the museum and the history of collecting, garden and landscape studies, film and photography , cultural theory. As this collection acknowledges, Bann's writings have 'oriented the concerns of a whole generation of scholars'. The essays are presented with a portfolio of Bann's poem prints.

First published as a special issue of Art History, 28:5, November 2005. Deborah Cherry. Introduction: About Stephen Bann, pp. 575–581.

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