Dr. Matthew Potter (University of Leicester)
Matthew Potter lectures in the Department of the History of Art and Film at the University of Leicester. His research is on the history of British visual culture 1850-1950 with particular reference to international exchanges between Britain and Germany, and Britain and the Commonwealth countries. His current interests include the politics of hybridised cultures within the British world, and the role of art criticism and collecting in the formational dynamics of national identities.
He has published on the role of imperialism in German art, the engagement with German ideas at Cambridge University in the fin-de-siècle, and issues of materiality in the ‘modernist’ practice of GF Watts. Recently Matthew has completed a book on The Influential Genius of Germany: Germanism and British Art 1850-1939 for Manchester University Press.
He has published on the role of imperialism in German art, the engagement with German ideas at Cambridge University in the fin-de-siècle, and issues of materiality in the ‘modernist’ practice of GF Watts. Recently Matthew has completed a book on The Influential Genius of Germany: Germanism and British Art 1850-1939 for Manchester University Press.
