Professor Richard Woodfield is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Glasgow and Emeritus Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Prior to his retirement he was Research Professor for the Nottingham Trent School of Art and Design.

He is the Editor of the Open Access Journal of Art Historiography and the General Editor of the forthcoming series: Glasgow Monographs on Art Historiography.

His special research interests are in art historiography and art theory, particularly in the theory of the image. He is currently working on the Vienna School of Art History in the context of its contemporary philosophy and psychology. Having completed books on Riegl and Warburg he is now engaged in writing an introduction to art historiography and a monograph on the work of Ernst Gombrich. He has edited Gombrich on Art and Psychology, Gombrich's Reflections on the History of Art (1987), The Essential Gombrich (1996), Ernst Gombrich, Dal mio tempo: Città, maestri, incontri (1999) and constructed the Gombrich Archive. He has made a selection of his papers available on academia.edu.

He has been Secretary General and First Vice-President of the International Association of Aesthetics, Honorary International Vice-President of the Hungarian Association of Aesthetics, Secretary and Honorary Vice-President of the British Society of Aesthetics and Honorary Member of the Italian Association of Aesthetics.

He has edited Point (the British Art & Design research journal), the Journal of Visual Arts Practice and has been Guardian of the International Association of Aesthetics Yearbook Website.

Mail: Professor Richard Woodfield, Department of the History of Art, University of Glasgow, 8 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH. Telephone: 44 (0)115 9523320 (+voicemail). Email: richard.woodfield@arthist.arts.gla.ac.uk