Whitney Davis

Whitney Davis is George C. and Helen N. Pardee Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History & Theory of Ancient & Modern Art at the University of California at Berkeley and 2024–29 Distinguished Scientist and Scholar of the NOMIS Foundation, Zürich. He is the author of Visuality and Virtuality: Images and Pictures from Prehistory to the Present (Princeton University Press, 2017), A General Theory of Visual Culture (Princeton University Press, 2011), and five previous books on prehistoric, ancient, and modern arts and on the history and theory of sexuality.