David Freedberg is Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art and Director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University.
13 Facts About David Freedberg
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David Freedberg was Director of the Warburg Institute at the University of London from July 2015 to April 2017.
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David Freedberg taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art of the University of London before being appointed Professor of the History of Art at Columbia in 1984.
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David Freedberg is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Accademia Nazionale di Agricultura in Bologna, and the Istituto Veneto per le Scienze, Lettere e Arti.
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David Freedberg is best known for his work on psychological responses to art, and particularly for his studies on iconoclasm and censorship.
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David Freedberg first investigated this topic in the early 1970s in preparation for his dissertation Iconoclasm and Painting in the Revolt of the Netherlands and in Iconoclasts and Their Motives, 1984, which was followed by the landmark book, The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1989 and in several subsequent editions in many languages.
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David Freedberg then turned his attention to seventeenth-century Roman art and to the paintings of Nicolas Poussin.
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David Freedberg is devoting a substantial portion of his attention to collaborations with neuroscientists working in fields of movement, embodiment, and emotion.
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Much of David Freedberg's time is taken up by his directorship of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America and his commitment to fostering interdisciplinary work across the humanities and the sciences.
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From 2015 to 2017, David Freedberg was Director of the Warburg Institute at the University of London.
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David Freedberg sought to inject new energy into the main intellectual directions of the Institute, which, under threat from Nazism, was transferred from Hamburg to London in 1933.
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David Freedberg is president of The Friends of Liberty Hall, a non-profit organization dedicated to the restoration of Liberty Hall in Machiasport, Maine, which overlooks the site of the first sea battle of the American Revolution.
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David Freedberg serves on the boards of several academic and professional journals, including Print Quarterly, Res, Revue de l'Art, Nuncius, the Journal of Neuroesthetics, Arts and Neurosciences, Imagines, etc.