Douglas Fordham
British Art, Visual Culture of Empire, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Painting and Printmaking
Education
- BA, Wake Forest University, 1995
- MA and PhD, Yale University, 1999 and 2003
Biography
Douglas Fordham is a historian of art and visual culture in the Anglophone world. Major themes in his work include the centrality of empire to the making and reception of British art, the pressures and opportunities of printmaking in the Anglophone world, the persistence of indigenous creativity in the face of colonial modernity, and the limits of critique. Fordham is a co-editor with Tim Barringer and Geoff Quilley on Art and the British Empire (2007), and a co-editor with Ash Duhrkoop on Boomalli Prints & Paper: Making Space as an Art Collective (2022). Monographs include British Art and the Seven Years' War: Allegiance and Autonomy (2010) and Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire, 1770-1820 (2019).
Douglas welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD students relating to any aspect of British art, the imperial world in which operated, and the indigenous artistic traditions that persisted within it.