ART HISTORY
CAREER AND EXPERTISE

Anthea Callen is widely published and a world renowned specialist on Impressionism and the history of nineteenth-century artists’ materials and techniques. She regularly collaborates with museum conservators and curators in the study of historical materials and methods; she also serves as a professional expert for exhibitions and on specialist panels, and she appears regularly in the media. Author of nine books, she also publishes exhibition catalogue essays, book chapters, and articles in scholarly journals.
As a feminist she has long been interested in gender, sexuality and visual representation of the human body; her major new book Looking at Men: Art, Anatomy and the Modern Male Body, spans the visual cultures of art and medicine to examine the modern male body, masculinity, and power c.1780 to 1920 (Yale, 2018). She considers the male gaze on the female body in The Spectacular Body: Science, Method and Meaning in the Work of Degas, (Yale 1995), and in 1979 authored the groundbreaking book Angel in the Studio: Women in the Arts and Crafts Movement, published in the USA as Women Artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Her recent book on landscape painting practice, The Work of Art: Plein air Painting and Artistic Identity in Nineteenth-century France (Reaktion, 2015) is distributed in the USA by the University of Chicago Press. (see BOOKS) A frequent visiting professor, international and national speaker, Callen has given public lectures, plenary talks and research papers in Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia, and Japan (see AGENDA).