David Alan Mellor
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David Alan Mellor is a British curator and professor of and writer on art.
David Mellor — as he was called before he wanted to avoid confusion with the politician of the same name
— studied art at Sussex University under Quentin Bell
. When Asa Briggs
, also a professor there at the time, received the archive of Mass-Observation
from Tom Hopkinson, he gave Mellor the job of sorting it.
Exhibitions curated by Mellor include Paradise Lost: The New Romantic Imagination in Britain (Barbican, 1987); and The Sixties (1993).
As a professor of art at Sussex University, his students included Jeremy Deller
.
In 2005 Mellor won the Royal Photographic Society
's J. Dudley Johnston Award.
David Mellor — as he was called before he wanted to avoid confusion with the politician of the same name
David Mellor
David John Mellor, QC is a British politician, non-practising barrister, broadcaster, journalist and football pundit. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Secretary of State for National Heritage , before...
— studied art at Sussex University under Quentin Bell
Quentin Bell
Quentin Claudian Stephen Bell was an English art historian and author.Bell was the son of Clive Bell and Vanessa Bell , and the nephew of Virginia Woolf . He was educated in London and at the Quaker Leighton Park School.Principally an artist, as a potter, he was drawn to academia...
. When Asa Briggs
Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs
Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs is a British historian, one of the most respected historians who has written on the Victorian era. In particular, his trilogy, Victorian People, Victorian Cities, and Victorian Things made a lasting mark on how historians view the nineteenth century...
, also a professor there at the time, received the archive of Mass-Observation
Mass-Observation
Mass Observation was a United Kingdom social research organisation founded in 1937. Their work ended in the mid 1960s but was revived in 1981. The Archive is housed at the University of Sussex....
from Tom Hopkinson, he gave Mellor the job of sorting it.
Exhibitions curated by Mellor include Paradise Lost: The New Romantic Imagination in Britain (Barbican, 1987); and The Sixties (1993).
As a professor of art at Sussex University, his students included Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller is an English conceptual, video and installation artist. He is a Turner Prize winner.Deller is best-known for his Battle of Orgreave , a reenactment of the actual Battle of Orgreave which occurred during the UK miners' strike in 1984.-Life and work:Jeremy Deller was born in London,...
.
In 2005 Mellor won the Royal Photographic Society
Royal Photographic Society
The Royal Photographic Society is the world's oldest national photographic society. It was founded in London, United Kingdom in 1853 as The Photographic Society of London with the objective of promoting the Art and Science of Photography...
's J. Dudley Johnston Award.
Books by Mellor
Mellor has also contributed to books not listed below.- Cecil Beaton. London: Jonathan Cape, 1994. ISBN 0224041223. Coedited with Philippe Garner. On Cecil BeatonCecil BeatonSir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre...
. - Arthur Tress: Centric 52: Requiem for a Paperweight. Long Beach: California State University, University Art Museum, 1994. ISBN 0936270330. On Arthur TressArthur TressArthur Tress is a notable American photographer born on November 24, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York. He is well known for his staged surrealism and exposition of the human body.- Education :* Abraham Lincoln High School, Coney Island, New York* B.F.A...
. - David Hiscock. London: Zelda Cheatle, 1995. ISBN 0951837192. With Chris Titterington. On David Hiscock.
- Sixties London: The Photographs of Robert Whitaker 1965–70. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1996. On Robert WhitakerRobert Whitaker (photographer)Robert Whitaker was a renowned British photographer, best known internationally for his many photographs of The Beatles, taken between 1964 and 1966, and for his photographs of the rock group Cream, which were used in the Martin Sharp-designed collage on the cover of their 1967 LP Disraeli...
. - The Only Blonde in the World: Pauline Boty, 1938-1966. London: AM Publications, 1998. ISBN 0950989622. With Sue Watling. On Pauline BotyPauline BotyPauline Boty was a founder of the British Pop art movement and Britain's only notable female Pop art painter. Boty's paintings and collages often demonstrated a joy in self-assured femininity and female sexuality, and expressed overt or implicit criticism of the "man's world" in which she lived...
. - Chemical Traces: Photography and Conceptual Art, 1968–1998. Kingston upon Hull: Kingston upon Hull City Museums & Art Galleries, 1998. ISBN 090449019X.
- The Barry Joule Archive: Works on Paper Attributed to Francis Bacon. Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2000. ISBN 1873654847.
- The Sixties: Britain and France, 1962–1973: The Utopian Years. London: Philip Wilson, 2001. ISBN 0856674672.
- Tracing Light. Maidstone: PhotoWorks, 2001. ISBN 0951742787. With Garry Fabian MillerGarry Fabian MillerGarry Fabian Miller , is an internationally recognised photographic artist, specialising in ‘camera-less’ photographs since the mid 1980s...
. - The Art of Robyn Denny. London: Black Dog, 2002. ISBN 1901033333. On Robyn DennyRobyn DennyRobyn Denny, born in Abinger, Surrey in 1930, is one of a group who transformed British art in the late 1950s, leading it into the international mainstream. He studied at the Royal College of Art in the mid-1950s, among a generation that included Richard Smith and Alan Green...
. - Interpreting Lucian Freud. London: Tate, 2002. ISBN 1854374427. On Lucian FreudLucian FreudLucian Michael Freud, OM, CH was a British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time...
. - Van Gogh vu par Bacon. Arles: Actes sud, 2002. ISBN 2742738401. Vincent van GoghVincent van GoghVincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is...
as seen by Francis Bacon, edited by Mellor and Yolande Clergue. - Liliane Lijn: Works 1959-80. Warwick: Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, 2005. ISBN 0902683756. On Liliane LijnLiliane LijnLiliane Lijn , is a prominent American-born artist who was the first woman artist to work with kinetic text , exploring both light and text as early as 1962...
. - No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1967–1987: From the British Council and the Arts Council Collection. London: Hayward Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-85332-265-5.