Art, Money, Parties: New Institutions in the Political Economy of Contemporary Art (Tate Liverpool Critical Forum 7)

Jonathan Harris is Reader in Art History at the University of Liverpool and Director of the University's M.A. degree course Visual Art in the City. Dr Harris has always been active in the professional Association of Art Historians in Britain, organising its national conferences in Leeds in 1992 and in Liverpool in 2002. His published and television work for the Open University arts course Modern Art: Practices and Debates' is well-known now through the world, particularly in the US, and the course books have also been translated recently into Portuguese and Spanish. Dr Harris has lectured and published widely on American art in the twentieth century, state subvention of the visual arts, the development of Cultural Studies in Britain, the rise of the New Art History' and the relations between art history and social theory. His most recent book is The New Art History: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2001).