Overview
Jonathan Clarkson is a leading international scholar on the painter John Constable. His critically acclaimed monograph on the artist was published by Phaidon in 2010. His book was named by The Sunday Times and The Telegraph as one of the best art history books of the year. He has given public lectures on Constable at the National Gallery of Wales, Cardiff and the Victoria & Albert Museum, and was interviewed on BBC 4’s Constable: a Country Rebel. He trained as an art historian under Stephen Bann, and his doctoral thesis was supervised by Michael Podro and examined by Richard Wollheim and Margaret Iversen.
As well as Constable and landscape painting in Britain, Jonathan Clarkson’s research interests include contemporary art, psychoanalysis and theories of representation.
He has published an essay on Adrian Stokes’ book, Stones of Rimini and presented papers at the Association of Art Historians, and the Classical Association on an ancient Roman well-head in the NMGW, Cardiff. The papers looked at the way the object’s shape impacts on the narrative that it depicts, and how the viewer is drawn into the story.
Research Publications
ADRIAN STOKES, STONES OF RIMINI (1934)
Clarkson, J., 1 Jan 2013, Fifty Key Texts In Art History. Taylor and Francis, p. 77-81 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review