Jesús Pedro Lorente
Jesús Pedro Lorente is Full Professor of Art History at the University of Zaragoza (Spain), where he leads the research group Aragonese Observatory of Art in the Public Sphere. His last book in English, Reflections on Critical Museology: Inside and Outside Museums, was published in 2022 by Routledge. The same publishers released in 2019 his previous book: Public Art and Museums in Cultural Districts. Ashgate published in 1998 the book based on his PhD (supervised by Eileen Hooper-Greenhill at the Department of Museum Studies of Leicester University): Cathedrals of Urban Modernity: The First Museums of Contemporary Art, 1800-1930, which was the prequel of his best-known publication, The Museums of Contemporary Art: Notion and Development (also available in Spanish, French and Turkish).
Prof. Lorente is member of the editorial board of specialized journals such as Museum and Society, Museum History Journal, Museology: International Scientific Electronic Journal, MIDAS: Museus e Estudos Interdisciplinares, Culture et Musées, MODOS, ICOFOM Study Series, Journal of International Museum Education, Museo y Territorio, Revista de Museología, or Museos.es, etc.