Marcia Pointon

University of Manchester, United Kingdom

March–April 2004

Marcia Pointon was formerly Pilkington Professor of History of Art at the University of Manchester. She is now professor emerita at Manchester; honorable research fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art; and visiting professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her most recent books are Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England (Yale University Press, 1993) and Strategies for Showing: Women, Possession and Representation in English Visual Culture 1665-1800 (Oxford University Press, 1997). She delivered the Mellon Lectures in London in 2000 and will repeat them in New Haven in 2004. These lectures, entitled "Brilliant Effects: Jewelry and its Images," form the core of her forthcoming book on the display culture of jewels and jewelry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. At the Clark she will be working toward completion of this book.