Jeremy TANNER - B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

• Reader in Classical and Comparative Art
• Degree Programme Co-ordinator: M.A. Comparative Art and Archaeology
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCL3006 Magic, religion and reason in Greek art and architecture
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCL2007 Greek art and architecture
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCL2008 Roman art and architecture
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCLG067 Art: interpretation and explanation
  

Research Interests:

• Sociological and anthropological approaches to art: development of the concept of expressive symbolism in Parsonian action theory, through synthesis with structuralism, pragmatism (Peirce, Mead) and ethology.
• Comparative approaches to ancient, especially Greek and Roman art: variation in processes of institutional and cultural differentiation in artistic systems (Greece, China, India, early modern Europe); comparative religious iconography; comparative approaches to portraiture
• Art and archaeology: art as material culture; art and the representation of the past; tourism, heritage and the recycling of the classical past from the Renaissance to today.

Recent Publications:

• Tanner,J. (2007). Portraits and agency: a comparative view. in Osborne,R., Tanner,J. (ed.) Art's Agency and Art History. New Interventions in Art History series. London and New York: Blackwells, 1-226. ISBN: 9781405135375
• Tanner,J., Osborne,R. (2007), Art's Agency and Art History,New Interventions in Art History series. London and New York: Blackwells. ISBN: 9781405135375.
• Tanner,J., Osborne,R. (2007). Introduction: 'Art and agency' and art history. in Osborne,R., Tanner,J. (ed.) Art's Agency and Art History. New Interventions in Art History series. London and New York: Blackwells. ISBN: 9781405135375
• Tanner,J. (2006), The Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece: Religion, Society and Artistic Rationalisation, Cambridge Classical Monographs series. London: Cambridge University Press.
• Tanner,J. (2005). Rationalists, fetishists and art lovers: action theory and the comparative analysis of high cultural institutions. Chapter 10 in Fox, R. C., Lidz, V. M. , Bershady, H. J. (ed.) After Parsons: A Theory of Social Action for the Twenty First Century. New York: Russel Sage Foundation, 179-207. ISBN: 0-87154-269-2
• Tanner, J, (2004). "Archaeology and art", co-authored with Raymond Corbey and Robert Layton, in J. Bintliff ed). A Companion to Archaelogy. (Oxford, Blackwells) pp. 367-79.
• Tanner, J, ((ed.) (2003. The Sociology of Art: a Reader. Routledge.
• Tanner, J, (2003). 'Finding the Egyptian in early Greek art', in Roger Mathews and Cornelia Roemer (eds.) Ancient Perspectives on Egypt, UCL Press, pp. 115-143.
• Tanner, J, (2001). Nature, culture and the body in classical Greek religious art', World Archaeology 33: 257-76.
• Tanner, J, (2000). The body, expressive culture and social interaction: integrating art history and action theory, in H Staubmann & H Wenzel (eds), Talcott Parsons: zur Aktualitaet eines Theorienprogramms. Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fur Soziologie, Sonderband 6, 285-323
• Tanner, J, (2000). Portraits, patrons and power in the late Roman Republic, The Journal of Roman Studies, XC, 18-50
• Tanner, J, (2000). Social structure, cultural rationalisation and aesthetic judgement in classical Greece, in N K Rutter & B Sparkes (eds), Word and Image in Ancient Greece. Edinburgh Leventis Studies I, 183-205. Edinburgh University Press
• Tanner, J, (1999). Culture, Social structure and the status of visual artists, Proceeedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, 45, 136-175
• Tanner, J, (1996). Augustus, Patron of the arts, in The Dictionary of Art. Macmillan
• Tanner, J. Collecting, Museums and the Politics of Knowledge in Late Modern Society, Review article in The Cambridge Review, 115(2324), 83-87
• Tanner, J, (1994). Shifting paradigms in Classical Art History, Review article in Antiquity, 68(260), 650-5
• Tanner, J, (1992). Art as expressive symbolism (with comments by C Renfrew, I Hodder and A Schnapp), Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2(2), 167-90

Collaborations:

• Faces Across the North Sea: Viking Art in Norway and England 700-1300. Collaborative Project between the Institute of Archaeology UCL, and the Institute of Archaeology University of Trondheim.

Educational Background:

• BA Classics, Cambridge University 1987
• Thouron Scholar, University of Pennsylvania 1987/8, Graduate Studies in Anthropology, Communications and Sociology
• 1990 MA Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
• 1990-1996: Graduate Studies in Social and Political Science and Classics, University of Cambridge
• 1996 PhD, University of Cambridge, The Invention of Art History: Religion, Society and Artistic Differentiation in Comparative Historical Perspective.

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