{{Short description|English professor of art history (1940–2025)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1940|09|12}} | birth_place = | death_date = 2025 (aged 84) | death_place = | occupation = Professor of art history | education = Oxford University; Harvard University; Courtauld Institute of Art | spouse = | children = | relatives = Geoffrey Bindman (brother) }}
'''David Bindman''' (12 September 1940 – 2025) was an English academic of art who was emeritus Durning-Lawrence professor of the history of art at University College London, and was a research fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research (formerly W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute) at Harvard University from 2006. Bindman died in 2025, at the age of 84. He was the brother of human rights lawyer Geoffrey Bindman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/about/news/david-bindman-19402025/page/1|title=David Bindman (1940–2025)|first=Sarah Victoria|last=Turner|website=paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk|date=3 June 2025|access-date=7 July 2025}}</ref>
==Early life== David Bindman was born on 12 September 1940.<ref>{{cite web |title=David Bindman |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/DdZsuR9uVkZ5eRj30UeT6BuWBdQ/appointments |website=Companies House |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref> He was educated at Oxford University, Harvard University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.<ref>[http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/david-bindman David Bindman.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421102045/http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/david-bindman |date=21 April 2016 }} Image of the Black Archive & Library, Hutchins Center. Retrieved 29 May 2016.</ref>
==Career== Bindman was emeritus professor of the history of art at University College London. In 2015, a ''festschrift'' was published in his honour by UCL Press, titled ''Burning Bright''.<ref>[https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/ucl-press-news/burning-bright-celebrating-david-bindman Burning Bright: Celebrating David Bindman's Extraordinary Career] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602140316/https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/ucl-press-news/burning-bright-celebrating-david-bindman |date=2 June 2016 }} UCL Press. Retrieved 29 May 2016.</ref><ref>[https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/burning-bright/index ''Burning Bright: Essays in Honour of David Bindman''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602135149/https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/burning-bright/index |date=2 June 2016 }}. UCL Press. Retrieved 29 May 2016.</ref>
==Selected publications== *''Blake as an artist''. Phaidon, 1977. {{ISBN|978-0714816371}} *''Hogarth''. Thames & Hudson, London, 1981. *''Shadow of the guillotine: Britain and the French Revolution''. British Museum Publications, London, 1989. {{ISBN|0714116378}} *''Roubiliac and the Eighteenth-Century Monument: Sculpture as Theatre''. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1995. (With Malcolm Baker) {{ISBN|978-0300063332}} *''Hogarth and his times: Serious comedy''. British Museum Press, London, 1997. US: University of California Press. *''William Blake: The complete illuminated books''. Thames & Hudson, London, 2000. {{ISBN|0500510148}} *''Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the idea of race in the 18th century''. Cornell University Press, 2002. {{ISBN|978-0801440854}} *''John Flaxman: Line into contour''. Ikon Gallery, 2013. {{ISBN|978-1904864813}}
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==Further reading== * ''[https://uclpress.co.uk/book/burning-bright/ Burning bright: Essays in honour of David Bindman]''. Edited by Diana Dethloff, Tessa Murdoch and Kim Sloan, with Caroline Elam. UCL Press, London, 2015. {{ISBN|978-1-910634-34-9}} (Free pdf download)
==External links== * Luke Syson, [https://apollo-magazine.com/david-bindman-obituary-fitzwilliam-british-museum-french-revolution-william-blake/ "‘A revolutionary flame burned bright within him’: David Bindman (1940–2025)"], ''Apollo'', 12 June 2020.
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