Intellect

Ian Heywood taught for many years on the BA Fine Art course at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is now Research Fellow at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University. He has written and published widely in the fields of art, social and cultural theory, and criticism, including Social Theories of Art: A Critique, and Interpreting Visual Culture. His most recent essay is on the painting of Paula Kane (in Paula Kane: Studio Wall, International Centre for Fine Art Research, London University of the Arts, 2009). He is also co-editing (with Barry Sandywell) a Handbook of Visual Culture, published by Berg in 2011.