ann bermingham, professor

specialization

18th and 19th- century European art, particularly British art

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Arts 1214

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W 2-3 in
HSSB 6046

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805 893 8710

 
B.A. Manhattanville College
M.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ph.D. Harvard University

Ann Bermingham specializes in British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her first book, Landscape and Ideology: The English Rustic Tradition, 1760-1860 (University of California Press in 1986) and her most recent book, Learning to Draw: Studies in the History of a Polite and Useful Art (Yale University Press 2000) reflect her interest in the intersection of art with politics and social life. Learning to Draw won the best book award from the Historians of British Art and was named one of the outstanding Academic titles for the year by Choice. Her research interests include the history of landscape painting, the consumption of culture in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain, the gendering of artistic practices, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century aesthetic theory and popular visual spectacles, and the history of emotions. An exhibition curated by her on this last subject and entitled "Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's Cottage Door" opened at the Yale Center for British Art in October 2005 and traveled to the Huntington. Before coming to UCSB in 1993, Ann Bermingham taught at UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside and UC Santa Cruz.

undergraduate courses
                      
Art and the French Revolution
Eighteenth-Century British Art
Romanticism in Britain
Victorian Art
Gainsborough
Art of Horror and the Imagination
Western Art of the Modern Period
Materials and Techniques of Drawing, Painting and Print Making 

graduate seminars

2001          The Pre-Raphaelites and Pre-Raphaelitism
2002          The Gothic: Style and Sensibility in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century
                 Art
2003          British Modernism, 1870-1945
2004 and    Sensibility/Sensibilité in Eighteenth-Century England and France
2007          (A Mellon Summer Seminar co-taught with Professor Mary Sheriff
                 at the Getty Research Institute)
2007          Genre Painting in Britain and the United States (co-taught with
                 Professor Bruce Robertson)