The British-born critic and theorist Jean Fisher has died, aged 74. Fisher was a prolific writer and educator whose writing addressed art’s relationship to ethnicity, multiculturalism, globalisation and the ethico-political aspects of aesthetic experience. In the 1980s Fisher was a contributor to Artforum and from 1989 to 1999 she was assistant editor and then editor of the influential British journal Third Text. Fisher wrote extensively on artists such as Jimmie Durham, James Coleman, Susan Hiller and Rasheed Araeen, and over three decades taught at institutions including Goldsmiths College and the Royal College of Art in London, the School of Visual Art and the Whitney’s Independent Study Program in New York and the Jan Van Eycke Akademie in Maastricht. From 2011 she was Professor Emeritus at Middlesex University.
14 December 2016
