Career
Roberts has written extensively on conceptual art,the avant-garde,and the relationship between art and labour,authoring numerous books published by academic presses including Manchester University Press,Pluto,Verso,Columbia University Press,Haymarket,and Brill. [2] [3] [4] His work has been widely engaged with in debates on aesthetics,critical theory,and cultural politics. [5]
He is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton,where he leads the *Art,Philosophy and Social Practice* research cluster and has contributed to international academic programmes,including teaching and seminars in Dublin and New York. [6]
Roberts has also delivered public lectures at major venues,including the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London,where he discussed Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde with philosopher Peter Osborne. [7] He has appeared in academic documentaries,including one on the evolution,and then passing,of conceptual photography and art,produced by Source Photographic Review in 2012. [8]
Reception
Barry Schwabsky,writing in *Art Journal Open*,called Roberts "one of the more original and independent thinkers among contemporary art historians" in his review of The Necessity of Errors. [12]
In *Radical Philosophy*,Robert Spencer described The Intangibilities of Form as "an important and ambitious book that rewrites the history of twentieth-century art through a concern with work." [5]
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