Brian Lukacher

Brian Lukacher is a Professor of Art at Vassar College, where he has taught since 1986. His work bridges the social formation of European visual culture from the Enlightenment to the threshold of modernism, with a focus on British art and architecture of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He integrates philosophical and literary perspectives into his teaching and research, offering courses such as “Art and Revolution in Europe, 1789–1848” and “Visual Psychedelia.”

• Education: BA, New College of Florida; MA, Williams College; PhD, University of Delaware

Lukacher’s scholarship examines the intersection of aesthetics, social history, and visual culture. He authored Joseph Gandy: Architectural Visionary in Georgian England (2006) and contributed to Nineteenth-Century Art: A Critical History (third edition). His current project, Fallacies of Vision: The Phantoms of J. M. W. Turner, explores the philosophical dimensions of Turner’s work.

His essays have appeared in journals such as Word and Image, AA Files: Annals of the Architectural Association, and Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, as well as exhibition catalogues on Victorian pictorial photography and romantic antiquarian topography. Lukacher was also cited in a Newsweek article discussing the company behind Steve Bannon’s Napoleon portrait.