Donald Preziosi Author & Editor

Professor Donald Preziosi was trained in Art History, Linguistics, and Classical Archaeology at Harvard University and has taught at several American Universities, including Yale, M.I.T., and UCLA. In 2000-2001 he was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford, and his Slade Lectures were published under the title Brain of the Earth's Body: Art, Museums, and the Phantasms of Modernity (Minnesota, 2003). He has published widely on the historiography of the discipline of art history (Rethinking Art History: Meditations on a Coy Science (Yale, 1989), The Art of Art History (Oxford, 1998); on museology (Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum, jointly with Claire Farago (Ashgate, 2004); and on ancient art (Aegean Art & Architecture (Oxford, 1999).

Johanne Lamoreux is a writer, critic and art historian who lives in Montréal. She received her Ph.D. in art history in 1990 and has been a professor since then in the art history department at l'Université de Montréal. A founding member of La Societé d'esthétique du Québec, she has served on the boards of several periodicals and is a regular contributor to exhibition catalogues, journals and periodicals.