Mark A. Cheetham

Mark A Cheetham is an art historian and independent curator at the University of Toronto. His research centres on art writing and visual culture from the mid-eighteenth century to the present in Britain, Europe, the USA and Canada. He has written books and articles on art theory in Britain; the history, theory, and current practice of abstract art; the reception of Immanuel Kant’s thinking in the visual arts and the discipline of art history; on art historical methodology; ecological art, and on recent art in Canada and internationally. His current research engages contemporary ecological art; the practices of ecocritical art history; the use of analogy in art history and museums and the image cultures of nineteenth-century Arctic voyaging from the Anglosphere (part of the co-curated exhibition Arctic Fever, upcoming at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto). His most recent publication is ‘Monumental Ephemera: British Sculpture in the Arctic, Icebergs in London, an Inuit Map’, in Art History.