Lynda Nead is Pevsner Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published on a wide range of areas, with key interests in the visual representation of the body; art and the city; art and sport; intermediality; and post-war British visual culture. Her books include: 'The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality' (Routledge, 1992); 'Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London' (Yale, 2000); 'The Haunted Gallery: Painting, Photography and Film c.1900' (Yale, 2008) and she has published a large number of articles, including, most recently, on the visual culture of boxing: 'Stilling the Punch: Boxing, Violence and the Photographic Image', 'Journal of Visual Culture', 10:3 (2012) and 'The Cutman: Boxing, the Male Body and the Wound', 'Sport, Ethics and Philosophy', 7:4 (2013) and the relationship of art and fashion in the 19th century 'The Layering of Pleasure', 'Nineteenth-Century Contexts' (2013). Nead is currently Gresham Professor of History of Art and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow, working on a new book called 'The Tiger in the Smoke: British Visual Culture 1945-60'. She is also a regular contributor to BBC radio and to arts documentaries on BBC television and other channels/companies.
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Lynda Nead
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