Satish Padiyar was educated at University College London, where he gained his PhD (1999), working with Helen Weston and Adrian Rifkin. He taught at the University of Leeds and at University College London, and was the recipient of a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship, before joining The Courtauld as Visiting Lecturer in 2005. He worked as chief curator on The Triumph of Eros: Art and Seduction in 18th Century France, at the Hermitage Rooms, London, in 2006. He was appointed Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century European Art in 2008.
Recent areas of work include the history of sculpture, European neoclassical painting, the relation between art and philosophy, and critical theoretical approaches to the history of art. An interest in rethinking European neoclassical painting and sculpture with queer, feminist, psychoanalytic and Marxist theory culminated in his book听Chains. David, Canova, and the Fall of the Public Hero in Postrevolutionary France听(2007), reviewed in听The Burlington Magazine, Art History, Oxford Art Journal, and听The Journal of Modern History. The book offers a fresh account of European Neoclassicisms of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, by attending to questions about the male body, notions of self, Kantian aesthetics, and sexuality. He is currently researching and preparing a book on the senses of freedom, or 鈥榝ree agency鈥, in European modern art, from Fragonard to Twombly, c. 1750 鈥 1960, which will include chapters on the art of David, Courbet, C茅zanne and Picasso. He is writing a commissioned monograph on Jean-Honor茅 Fragonard, for completion in 2016.
Teaching 2016-17
- BA1 Foundations
- BA2 Frameworks
- BA3 Special Option: Cezanne
- MA History of Art: The Male Body in 19th-century European Art
PhD Supervision
Current
- , 鈥楪ustave Caillebotte And The Status Of The Working Man鈥檚 Body In The Visual And Political Culture Of The Third Republic鈥
Recently completed
- Julia Thoma, The Final Spectacle: Military Painting under the Second Empire,听1855-1867听(with Prof. John House)
Forthcoming publications
Books
- Monograph on Jean-Honor茅 Fragonard for completion in 2016
Recent publications
Books and Online Books
- , Courtauld Online Books, 2013
- Chains. David, Canova, and the Fall of the Public Hero in Postrevolutionary France, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007.
- The Triumph of Eros. Art and Seduction in 18th-Century France, exhibition catalogue, with Dimitri Ozerkof, Fontanka, 2006.
Essays, articles and reviews
- 鈥樷, in Satish Padiyar, ed.,听Modernist Games. C茅zanne and His Card Players, 2013
- 鈥楲ast Words: David鈥檚听听(1824). Subjectivity, Death, and Postrevolutionary Late Style鈥, RIHA Journal, 2011
- 鈥楴otes on Writing as Vertigo鈥,听Art History, 34/ 2, April, 2011, reprinted in Catherine Grant and Patricia Rubin, eds.,听Creative Writing and Art History, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
- 鈥楲es Lettres de Madame R茅camier 脿 Canova (1813-1819): une 茅criture f茅minine entre gr芒ce et exil鈥, in听Les Voix des Femmes dans le Discours sur l鈥橝rt (1750-1850), Les Presses du R茅el, Paris, 2010.
- 鈥榃ho is Socrates? Desire and Subversion in David鈥檚听Death of Socrates听(1787)鈥,听Representations, 102, 2008.
- 鈥楽hadow of Agency: Derrida, Marx, David鈥, in Matthew Beaumont, et.al. (eds.),听As Radical as Reality Itself: Essays on Marxism and Art for the 21st Century, Peter Lang, 2007
- 鈥楧ispossessed. On 鈥淟ate鈥 David鈥, in Mark Ledbury, ed.,听David after David. Essays on the Later Work, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and Yale University Press, 2007.
- 鈥楳enacing Cupid in the Art of Rococo鈥, in听The Triumph of Eros. Art and Seduction in 18th-Century France, 2006
- 鈥楽ade/ David鈥,听Art History, 23, 2000
