Ladislav Kesner#
| Membership Number: | 4141 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MUSICOLOGY & ART HISTORY |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CZECH REPUBLIC |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.phil.muni.cz/dejum |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany; head of research group Image-Mind-Brain
- 2013 Rudolf Arnheim professor, Humboldt University Berlin
- 2006 Masaryk University, Department of Art History, Brno
- 2007 - 2008 Wissenschaftkolleg Berlin, fellow
- 2006 - 2007 IFK Wien, fellow
- 1999 - 2006 Cultropa (museum planning and management agency), director
- 1986 - 1999 National Gallery, Prague (curator, head of department of ASian arts, deputy director)
Fields of Scholarship
- Art and neuroscience
- Aesthetics
- Historigraphy of art
- Psychology of art
- Art theory
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Gloria Musealis award for the best exhibition of the year
- 1998 Josef Krása prize awarded by Czech Society of Art Historians
- 1995 Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, awarded by College Art Association of America
