About Stephen Bann

Stephen Bann's writings have had a profound effect on the fields of visual studies, art history and cultural history. In this collection, distinguished contributors reflect on the writings of this internationally renowned scholar. Innovative essays on French art, architecture and culture accompany exciting new accounts of garden history, painting in China, the connections between disciplines and media, the relations of text and image, and the profound changes to the study of visual and material cultures in recent decades. As this collection acknowledges, Bann's writings have 'oriented the concerns of a generation of scholars'.

Deborah Cherry is Editor of the journal Art History and Professor of the History of Art at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London. Her publications include The Edwardian Era (co-edited, 1987), Treatise on the Sublime (co-edited, 1990), Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists (1993), Beyond the Frame: Feminism and Visual Culture (2000), Speak English (2002) Art: History: Visual: Culture (2005), Between Luxury and the Everyday: Decorative Arts in Eighteenth-Century France (co-edited, 2005), and Local/Global: Women Artists in the Nineteenth Century (co-edited, 2006).