Books by Stephen Bann

Carter's drawings reveal the originality of his mind and the love of exactitude and clarity that drives his practice. His singular contribution to the post-war flowering of British abstraction can clearly be seen here.

Rather than simply tracing the rise of Modernism in the 19th century, this book reconstitutes the period's cultural milieu through a series of case studies written with an eye to overarching forces at play. It surveys the field as a whole and discusses the relationships between the various media in the context of an overall "visual economy".

This 1984 text is concerned with how the past was represented in Britain and France in the nineteenth century. This was a period of unprecedented historical-mindedness, during which the past was taken as subject matter. Dr Bann argues that the concrete vision of the past should be studied across the whole field of representation.

Today is the deed.We will account for it tomorrow.The past we are leaving behind as carrion.The future we leave to the fortune-tellers.We take the present day.

Some of the most significant in modern intellectual and cultural history pass by way of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818). This title includes essays by Elisabeth Bronfen, Crosbie Smith, Ludmilla Jordanova, Louis James, Michael Fried, Michael Grant, Jasia Reichardt, Robert Olorenshaw and Jean-Louis Schefer.