Dr Neil Matheson is an art historian specialising in surrealism, contemporary art and photography. Following doctoral research in surrealism and masculinity he has published widely on photography, surrealism and contemporary art, including a major sourcebook, 'The Sources of Surrealism'.
More recently he was involved in the AHRC funded project 'Spiritualism and Technology', one outcome of which was the book 'The Machine and the Ghost' (MUP, 2013). He has also published on Magritte, Neo Rauch, spririt photography, the photographic work of Paul McCarthy and the wartime photography of Cecil Beaton. He also collaborated on the production of the catalogue for the major Magritte retrospective held at Tate Liverpool in 2011. His latest book, 'Surrealism and the Gothic: Castles of the Interior', is published by Routledge in 2017.
Current Research Interests:
Research Group Member of CREAM and the Group for War and Cultural Studies.
Collaborations and Grants Collaboration on AHRC funded project 'Spiritualism and Technology', as part of Beyond Text programme.
Doctoral Researchers Supervised 'Out of Sight: Surrealism and Photography in 1930s Japan' - completed December 2013.