{{Short description|British art historian (1931–2008)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{Use British English|date=July 2015}} '''Michael Podro''' {{Post-nominals|post-noms=CBE FBA}} (13 March 1931 – 28 March 2008) was a British art historian. Podro, the son of Jewish refugees from central Europe, was born in and grew up in Hendon, Middlesex.<ref name="Guardian">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/apr/03/1|title=Michael Podro|work=The Guardian|author=Alex Potts|date=2008-04-03|access-date=2008-04-26}}</ref> He attended Berkhamsted school in Hertfordshire, served in the RAF, and read English at Jesus College, Cambridge and philosophy at University College London. After finishing his PhD in philosophy and art history, he taught at Camberwell College of Arts, the Warburg Institute and Essex University, where he became professor. His best known work are from his period here: ''The Manifold in Perception: Theories of Art from Kant to Hildebrand'' (1972), and ''Critical Historians of Art'' (1982).<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/04/25/db2502.xml|title=Professor Michael Podro|publisher=Daily Telegraph|author=|date=2008-04-25|accessdate=2008-04-26}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Here Podro argued for bringing philosophical questions to bear on the study of art, as well as the prevailing focus on style, attribution and contextual detail.<ref name="Guardian"/>
Podro served as a trustee at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and was a fellow of the British Academy.<ref name="Guardian"/> In 1961 he married Charlotte Booth, with whom he had two daughters.<ref name="Telegraph"/>
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==External source== *{{cite web|url=http://www.artcritical.com/carrier/DCPodro.htm|title=Michael Podro (1931-2008)|publisher=artcritical.com|author=David Carrier|date=April 2008|accessdate=2008-04-26}} *{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-michael-podro-803139.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080405002315/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-michael-podro-803139.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 April 2008|title=Michael Podro (1931-2008)|work=The Independent|author=Charles Saumarez Smith|date=April 2008|accessdate=2008-08-02}}
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