Kathryn Brown

Kathryn Jane Brown FHEA is a British art historian and Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at Loughborough University.

For the scientist, see Kathryn Brown (climate policy advisor). For other people with similar names, see Catherine Brown.

Kathryn Brown

FHEA
EducationBalliol College, Oxford (PhD), Birkbeck, University of London (PhD)
Known forworks on Degas, Matisse and Tzara
SpouseAlan Thomas
Scientific career
Fields19th-century and 20th-century French art
InstitutionsLoughborough University, Tilburg University
Theses
Doctoral advisorsMalcolm Bowie

Career

Educated at Seymour College, Adelaide, and the University of Adelaide, South Australia, Brown was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. As a Rhodes Scholar, she completed a PhD (D.Phil) at Balliol College, Oxford under the supervision of Malcolm Bowie. Brown then became a private equity lawyer in the City of London. Trained at Slaughter and May, Brown worked as an associate successively at Slaughter and May and then became an associate, and later Counsel, in the London office of US law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy. She then became a partner of the US law firm Paul Hastings, LLP. Following the completion of a second PhD at the University of London Brown returned to academia as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia. She was subsequently appointed to a Lectureship in Art History at Tilburg University before moving to Loughborough. Brown is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is best known for her works on 19th-century and 20th-century French art, modernism, artists’ books, museology, and the art market with a particular focus on the works of Degas, Matisse and Tzara.[1][2][3][4]

Books

Edited
  • The Art Book Tradition in Twentieth-Century Europe, Ashgate, 2013
  • Interactive Contemporary Art: Participation in Practice, I.B. Tauris, 2014
  • Perspectives on Degas, Routledge, 2017

References
  1. Morowitz, Laura (9 May 2014). "Women Readers in French Painting 1870–1890: A Source for the Imagination by Kathryn Brown (review)". Nineteenth-Century French Studies. 42 (3): 270–272. doi:10.1353/ncf.2014.0016. ISSN 1536-0172. S2CID 194070121.
  2. Khalfa, Jean (1 April 2019). "Matisse's Poets: Critical Performance in the Artist's Book. By Kathryn Brown". French Studies. 73 (2): 303–304. doi:10.1093/fs/knz044. ISSN 0016-1128.
  3. White, Claire (14 April 2013). "Women Readers in French Painting, 1870–1890: A Space for the Imagination by Kathryn Brown (review)". French Studies: A Quarterly Review. 67 (2): 265. doi:10.1093/fs/knt018. ISSN 1468-2931.
  4. McPherson, Heather (2013). "Review of Women Readers in French Painting 1870–1890: A Space for the Imagination". Woman's Art Journal. 34 (2): 60–62. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 24395319.
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