title: David Bindman
text: # David Bindman
  
  David Bindman (born 1940) is emeritus Durning-Lawrence professor of the history of art at University College London and has been a research fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research (formerly W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute) at Harvard University since 2010.
  
  ## Early life
  
  David Bindman was born in 1940. He was educated at Oxford University, Harvard University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
  
  ## Career
  
  Bindman is 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.
  
  ## 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
  