Brandon Taylor is Professor Emeritus of History of Art, University of Southampton, England, and Tutor in History and Theory of Art, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University. His research interests include modern and contemporary art, artists’ writings, the history of art institutions, and East European art. His most recent books include Collage: The Making of Modern Art (Thames and Hudson, London 2004), After Constructivism (Yale University Press 2014), and St Ives and British Modernism (Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 2015). He exhibits occasionally as a painter.