John O'Brian

John O'Brian is Professor Emeritus, Art History at the University of British Columbia. He publishes on modern art history and criticism, including Canadian art history, and is the author, co-author, or editor of eighteen books and more than sixty articles. His current research is on nuclear photography in North America and Japan and he has curated several exhibitions on this topic. His books include Beyond Wilderness (2007), edited with Peter White; Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse (1999); Voices of Fire: Art, Rage, Power, and the State (1996), co-edited with Bruce Barber and Serge Guilbaut; The Flat Side of the Landscape (1989); Degas to Matisse (1988); and David Milne and the Modern Tradition of Painting (1983). He is also the editor of the four-volume edition of Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism (1986 and 1993).