of gardens, Bann has found cause to cite the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, among others indicative of a contemporary imaginative predisposition. In Ways Around Modernism (2006), Bann affirms his approach of appreciating commentaries or histories as themselves change- and epoch-making. The argument is completed with an assessment of Post-Modernism in connection with "the historical phenomenon of 'curiosity'" which, for Bann, "has resurfaced as a widespread and noteworthy feature of present-day art". By implication, Post-Modernism may thus reveal overlooked qualities in Modernism. An insistence upon the importance of looking and unstinting attentiveness, in addition to inter-disciplinary openness, is characteristic and influential in his writing. Bann's book Parallel Lines: Printmakers, Painters and Photographers in Nineteenth-Century France (Yale University Press, 2001) was awarded the 2002 R. H. Gapper Book Prize by the UK Society for French Studies. This prize recognises the work as the best book published by a scholar working in Britain or Ireland in French studies in 2001. Bann has also contributed translations of Roland Barthes's The Discourse of History and Julia Kristeva's Proust and the Sense of Time (1993). Selected publications 1960s + Reg Gadney, Frank Popper, and Philip Steadman, Four Essays on Kinetic Art, St. Albans, 1966 Experimental Painting: Construction, Abstraction, Destruction, Reduction, London, 1967 1970s + J.E. Bowlt (eds), Russian Formalism: A Collection of Articles and Texts in Translation, Edinburgh, 1973 (ed), The Tradition of Constructivism, New York, 1974 1980s The Clothing of Clio: A Study of the Representation of History in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France, Cambridge, 1984 The True Vine: On Visual Representation and Western Tradition, Cambridge, 1989 1990s The Inventions of History: Essays on the Representation of the Past, Manchester, 1990 + William Allen (eds), Interpreting Contemporary Art, London, 1991 + Krishan Kumar (eds), Utopias and the Millennium, London, 1993 Under the Sign: John Bargrave as Collector, Traveler, and Witness, Michigan, 1995 (ed) Frankenstein, Creation and Monstrosity, London, 1994 The Sculpture of Stephen Cox, London, 1995 Romanticism and the Rise of History, New York, 1995 "Eminent Views" with Bob Chaplin. Limited edition book, Connecticut, 1995 Paul Delaroche, London, 1997 2000s Parallel Lines: Printmakers, Painters, and Photographers in Nineteenth-Century France, Yale, 2001 The Tradition of Constructivism, London, 2001 Jannis Kounellis, London, 2004 The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe, London, 2004 Ways Around Modernism (Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts), London, 2006 Distinguished Images: Prints in the Visual Economy of Nineteenth-Century France, London,