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Dr. Jim Harris
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Curriculum Vitae
Academic History
2001-10 The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
2010 PhD History of Art; Donatello’s Polychromed Sculpture: Case Studies in Materials and Meaning
[Supervisor: Professor Patricia Rubin]
2005 MA History of Art (Distinction)
2004 BA History of Art (1st Class Honours)
1986-1989 Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London,
Diploma in Acting (Honours)
Awards and Fellowships
2012 Caroline Villers Research Fellowship, The Courtauld Institute of Art
2011 Andrew W Mellon Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Courtauld Institute of Art
2005-10 AHRC PhD Studentship
2004-5 AHRC Research Preparation MA Studentship
2004 Courtauld Essay Prize for Outstanding BA3 Dissertation
1986-89 RADA Scholarship
Employment History
July 2012 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Teaching Curator,
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
Jan 2012 – Oct 2012 Caroline Villers Research Fellow in Conservation,
The Courtauld Institute of Art Department of Conservation and Technology
Feb 2012 - date Visiting Lecturer, Victoria and Albert Museum Education Department
Jan 2011- Dec 2011 Andrew W Mellon Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow,
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Oct 2010-Dec 2011 Visiting Lecturer, King’s College, London
Oct-Dec 2010 Visiting Lecturer, Birkbeck College, London
Oct 2009-Jul 2012 Visiting Lecturer, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Jan 2008-date Associate Director, Man and Eve Gallery, London
2007-2009 Editor, immediations,
The Courtauld Institute of Art Journal of Postgraduate Research
2006-date Consultant, Sam Fogg Ltd
2001-2012 Gallery Educator, Courtauld Gallery
1994-2001 Consultant/practitioner in Corporate Training
1989-2001 Actor and musician
Publications
(articles and book sections)
· ‘Pentecost: The Master of the Regensburg Hosteinsfrevel’ in S. Nash, Late Medieval Panel Paintings: Methods, Materials Meanings (London, 2011), pp.76-87
· ‘Defying the predictable: Donatello and the discomfiture of Vasari’, in J.Harris, S. Nethersole and P. Rumberg (eds.), ‘Una insalata di più erbe…’: A Festschrift for Patricia Lee Rubin (London, 2011), pp.151-163
· ‘Northern European Polychromed Sculpture’ in V. Brilliant (ed.), Gothic Art in the Gilded Age, exh. cat., John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida (Sarasota, 2009), pp. 78-93.
· Preface to Archer Prewitt: Works on Paper (Tokyo, 2009)
· Henrietta Simson: Over the Frontier, exh. essay, Man and Eve Gallery (London, 2008)
· ‘(Re-)Making Beauneveu: The Scholarly Construction of a Great Artist’, and ‘Digest of Documents’, in S. Nash, André Beauneveu, “No Equal in Any Land” – Artist to the Courts of France and Flanders (London, 2007), pp. 178-205
· ‘Whose Perspective? Andrea del Castagno, Paolo Uccello and the Patron’s Point of View,’ immediations, vol. 1, no. 3, (2006), pp. 5-23
(review)
· ‘Looking at Colour on post-Antique Sculpture’ review of Vinzenz Brinkmann, Oliver Primavesi, Max Hollein, (eds), Circumlitio. The Polychromy of Antique and Medieval Sculpture (Liebighaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 2010) in Journal of Art Historiography, no. 5, December 2011
(as editor)
· ‘Una insalata di più erbe…’: A Festschrift for Patricia Rubin, with S. Nethersole and P. Rumberg, (London, 2011)
· immediations: The Courtauld Institute of Art Journal of Postgraduate Research, vol. 2, no. 2 (London, 2009)
· immediations Conference Papers 1: Art and Nature – Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture, with L. Cleaver and K. Gerry, (London, 2009)
· immediations: The Courtauld Institute of Art Journal of Postgraduate Research, vol. 2, no. 1 (London, 2008)
(forthcoming and in preparation)
· ‘Donatello’s Entombment: Form, Function and Physical History’ for Il Santo, the Journal of the Centro Studi Antoniani, Padua (due for publication 2012)
· ‘Intelligibility, Invisibility and Relations of Similarity: Donatello and the Essential Property of Wood’, for Art History (in review)
· ‘The Cavalcanti Annunciation and the place of macigno in Florentine consciousness, 1300-1600’, for The Art Bulletin
· ‘Building a House for Repentance: the Monochrome Passion Cloths of San Nicolo del Boschetto in Genoa’, in European Painted Cloths c14th – c21st: Pageantry, Ceremony, Theatre and Domestic Interior, Conference Proceedings, Courtauld Institute of Art (Archetype)
· Donatello, monographic study for Yale University Press
Conferences Organised
October 2011-May 2012
· Three Approaches to Three Dimensions: Three Workshops and a Conference on Sculpture and Change, Courtauld Institute of Art, comprising:
o 14 October 2011: Workshop, Reconfigured Spaces
o 2 December 2011: Workshop, Relocated Objects
o 10 February 2012: Workshop, Rewritten Narratives
o 11/12 May 2012: Conference, Moving in Three Dimensions: Re-writing the Objects and Histories of Sculpture
December 2011
· Lille/Leuven/London, Courtauld Institute of Art/Université de Lille III/Katholieke Universiteit Leven
February 2011
· Showcasing New Research from London and Naples, Courtauld Institute of Art/Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’
Conference Papers and Lectures
June 2012
· ‘Local Stone for Local People: Macigno in fifteenth century Florence’, Art in the Making: Approaches to the Carving of Stone, King’s College, London
· ‘Building a House for Repentance: the Monochrome Passion Cloths of San Nicolo del Boschetto in Genoa’, European Painted Cloths c14th – c21st: Pageantry, Ceremony, Theatre and Domestic Interior, Courtauld Institute of Art
February 2012
· ‘Changing Colour: Sculptural Polychromy and Environmental Legibility’, Saturated Space Research Cluster, Architectural Association, London
October 2011
· ‘Reconstruction, Revolution and…Redecoration? Polychromed sculpture in London’s Long Reformation’, Caroline Villers Fellowship Introductory Lecture, Courtauld Institute of Art
July 2011
· ‘The sum of the parts: the fragments of Donatello’s Santo Altar’, Taking Shape: Italian Altarpieces before 1500, National Gallery, London/Courtauld Institute of Art
May 2011
· ‘André Beauneveu’s Virgin and Child’ Courtauld Institute of Art, Showcasing Art History series
April 2011
· ‘How ‘pure’ is ‘pure’? The independence and interdependence of sculpture and polychromy’, AAH Conference 2011, University of Warwick
March 2011
· ‘Surface and Substance: Locating Meaning in Donatello’s Polychromed Sculpture’, Renaissance Research Seminar, Courtauld Institute Research Forum
February 2011
· ‘All Truth and All Deception: Finding the Surface of Donatello’s Padua Entombment’, Showcasing New Research from Naples and London, London/Naples Roving Seminar 2011; The Courtauld Institute of Art/Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’
December 2010
· ‘The Meaning of Stuff: The Materials of Donatello’s Painted Sculpture’, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent
November 2010
· 'Donatello and Polychromy: Transforming and Transcending the Materials of Sculpture', 2nd Copenhagen Seminar on Polychrome Sculpture, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek/Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen
October 2010
· 'What Things Look Like: Donatello and the Surfaces of Sculpture', Showcasing Art History Public Lecture, Courtauld Institute of Art
April 2010
· ‘Holy Wounds or a Good Kicking: Donatello, Vasari and the Varieties of Violence’ in Images of Corporal Mortification and Corruption, Martyrdom and Mercy: 1250-1550: AAH Annual Conference 2010, University of Glasgow
March 2010
· ‘Show and Tell: Mimesis and Diegesis in Donatello’s Bardi Crucifix’ in Looking Like: Mimesis/Imitatio in the Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages: Medieval Art In Theory Workshop, Courtauld Institute of Art
February 2010
· ‘The Life and Times of an Unimportant Donatello: the Padua Entombment’ in Past Histories & Afterlives of Medieval Art and Architecture: 15th Annual Medieval Postgraduate Student Colloquium, Courtauld Institute of Art
May 2009
· ‘Civilising Donatello: carving, polychromy and the Body of Christ’ in Art and the Notion of Civilization: 7th Springtime Academy of the International Consortium on Art History, Université de Montréal
March 2009
· ‘Scratching the Surface: Re-learning Donatello’s Cavalcanti Annunciation’ in ‘Lost and Found’: 3rd Year Postgraduate Symposium 2009, Courtauld Institute of Art
February 2009
· ‘Intelligibility, Invisibility and Relations of Similarity: Donatello and the Essential Property of Wood’ in ‘Medieval 'Mise-en-abyme': the Object Depicted Within Itself’: Medieval Art In Theory Workshop, Courtauld Institute of Art