Brian Lukacher

The cover of Joseph Gandy: An architectural visionary in Georgian England, 2006.

Brian Lukacher is professor of art at Vassar College where he has taught since 1986. Lukacher received his M.A. from Williams College, and received his PhD from the University of Delaware. Following his time at Williams College, Lukacher received the Chester A. Dale and Samuel H. Kress Fellowship for 1981 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. His research interests relate to the social history and esthetic philosophy of late eighteenth and nineteenth-century British art and architecture.^[1] Lukacher completed his PhD on the architecture of Joseph Gandy about which he subsequently produced a monograph that was published by Thames & Hudson in 2002.^[2] In 2001 he gave the annual Soane Lecture on Joseph Gandy.

Lukacher lives in Poughkeepsie with his wife Joanne Martin Lukacher who is a textile historian.^[3]

Selected publications

• Joseph Michael Gandy, 1771-1843. Architectural Association, 1982. (exhibition catalogue) ISBN 978-0904503227
• "Phantasmagoria and Emenations: Lighting Effects in the Architectural Fantasies of Joseph Michael Gandy", AA Files, Vol. 4, 1983, pp. 40-48.
• "John Soane and his draughtsman Joseph Michael Gandy", in Diadalos, Vol. 25, September 1987, pp. 51-64.
• "Nature Historicized: Constable, Turner, and Romantic Landscape Painting", in Nineteenth-Century Art: A Critical History, ed. by Stephen F. Eisenman. Thames & Hudson, New York, 1994, pp. 115-143.
• Joseph Gandy in the Shadow of the Enlightenment. Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 2002. ISBN 978-0954228415
• Joseph Gandy: An architectural visionary in Georgian England. Thames & Hudson, London, 2006. ISBN 978-0500342213

References

1. Brian Lukacher. Victorian Studies, Vassar College. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
2. Brian Lukacher. The Library Cafe. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
3. Imitation and Improvement: The Norfolk Sampler Tradition. Joanne Martin Lukacher, 2012. Retrieved 12 March 2016.