Contributors

Mary Richards

4 Books in Our Catalog

Mary Richards is an award-winning art publisher, writer, and illustrator. She adapted and edited David Hockney's best-selling A History of Pictures for Children and is the author of A History of Music for Children and A History of Words for Children.

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Ian Richardson

1 Book in Our Catalog

Ian Richardson is the senior treasure registrar at the British Museum and secretary to the treasure valuation committee. He has a particular interest in postmedieval archaeology— and especially vervels!

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Tim Richardson

1 Book in Our Catalog

Tim Richardson is an internationally respected landscape critic, former editor at Wallpaper*, gardens editor at Country Life, and founding editor of New Eden magazine. His previous books include Avant Gardeners and The Arcadian Friends.

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Hans Richter

1 Book in Our Catalog

Hans Richter was well known both as a painter and film-maker. While in Zurich from 1916-20, he started the Dada movement with Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara and others. In 1940 he left Europe for the US and became an American citizen. His films include: Vormittagspuk, Dreams that Money Can Buy, Dadascope and 8 x 8, produced in collaboration with Arp, Calder, Duchamp, Ernst, Huelsenbeck, Man Ray and others. His paintings hang in galleries throughout the world, and he is the author of several books on the cinema and art.

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Emma Ridgway

1 Book in Our Catalog

Emma Ridgway is chief curator and head of exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford.

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Christine Riding

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Christine Riding is senior curator of paintings and head of the arts department at the National Maritime Museum, London.

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Stefan Riekeles

1 Book in Our Catalog

Stefan Riekeles is a curator based in Berlin. He has been the artistic director of the Japan Media Arts Festival Dortmund, the program director of the International Symposium on Electronic Art, and curated several exhibitions, including “Proto Anime Cut: Spaces and visions in Japanese animation.

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Louis Rigaud

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Louis Rigaud graduated in 2009 from the Arts Deécoratifs of Strasbourg. He has collaborated with Anouck Boisrobert on several other bestselling books for children including Tip-Tap and Popville.

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Christina Riggs

1 Book in Our Catalog

Christina Riggs is Professor of the History of Visual Culture at Durham University and a Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford. She is the author of six books, including Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction. She writes for a range of newspapers and magazines and has appeared in radio and TV shows for the BBC, National Geographic, and the History Channel.

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Bridget Riley

3 Books in Our Catalog

Bridget Riley is one of the most significant abstract painters working today and a master of the Op- Art style, which came to prominence in the 1960s. Her work is represented in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Dia Art Foundation, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; and other institutions around the world.

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Gaëlle Rio

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Gaëlle Rio is Director of the Musée de la Vie Romantique in Paris. She specializes in nineteenth-century art and in her previous position at the Petit Palais curated a number of exhibitions, including “Jewelry from the Petit Palais”; “The Art of Pastel, from Degas to Redon”; and “Paris 1900.

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Fred Ritchin

2 Books in Our Catalog

Fred Ritchin is a writer, educator, and photography critic. Currently the dean emeritus of the International Center of Photography (ICP) School, Ritchin was also the founding director of the documentary photography and photojournalism program at the ICP. Prior to joining ICP, Ritchin was professor of photography and imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and codirector of the NYU/Magnum Foundation photography and human rights educational program.

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Alice Roberts

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Alice Roberts is an academic, author, and broadcaster. She is a professor of public engagement with science at the University of Birmingham, and has presented many television programs, including the BBC's Digging for Britain.

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Paul Roberts

Ashmolean Museum

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Paul Roberts is research keeper of the department of antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. He has curated numerous popular exhibitions, including “Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum” at the British Museum in 2013 and “Last Supper in Pompeii” at the Ashmolean in 2019-2020.

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Jean Robertson

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

6 Books in Our Catalog

Jean Robertson is Chancellor's Professor of Art History Emerita at Indiana University, Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI, where she received three Indiana University awards for excellence in teaching. She specializes in art history and theory after 1980, viewed in a global context. She served as founding co-director of the Southern Ohio Museum and associate curator of the Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art.

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Jeff Robins

London College of Communication

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Jeff Robins has been shooting advertising and commercial photography as a freelance professional for over thirty years, while also serving as a digital photography consultant and visiting lecturer at the London College of Communication.

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Andrew Robinson

2 Books in Our Catalog

Andrew Robinson has written more than twenty-five books on the arts and sciences. They include Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts, India: A Short History, and Earthshock, which won the Association of Earth Science Editors Outstanding Publication Award. He is also a regular contributor to magazines, such as Current World Archaeology, History Today, The Lancet, Nature, and Science. A former literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement, he was also a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge.

 

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Fiona Rogers

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Fiona Rogers is the founder of Firecracker (fire-cracker.org). She is also Magnum Photos Global Business Development Manager.

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The Rolling Stones

1 Book in Our Catalog

The Rolling Stones-Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood—have all been interviewed specially for this book.

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Aaron Rosen

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Aaron Rosen is a Senior Lecturer at Rocky Mountain College, Montana. He is the author of Art + Religion in the 21st Century, and is a guest curator at the Jewish Museum London.

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