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DR ANTHONY WHITE



Contact Details

Organization: Culture and Communication
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/anthony-white.html
Work: 83443408
Fax: 83445563
Room: G35
Level: Ground
Building: Elisabeth Murdoch
Campus: Parkville

Biography

Previous Academic Appointments

Tutorial Instructor, Department of the History of Art and Archaeology, Harvard
University, 1999.

Head Teaching Fellow, Department of the History of Art and Archaeology,
Harvard University, 1996.

Teaching Fellow, Department of the History of Art and Archaeology, Harvard
University, 1994.

Sessional Tutor, Department of Fine Arts, The University of Melbourne, 1991.


Previous Museum Appointments

Curator, International Painting and Sculpture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2000 -2002

Exhibition Curator, Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, 2000.

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Art History Modern Art Italy, United States of America, Australia, Argentina

Languages

Languages

Language Proficiency
Italian Unspecified
English Speak, Read & Write

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (honours) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1991
Batchelor of Business Swinburne University of Technology 31-Dec-1985
Master of Arts University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1993
Master of Arts Harvard University 31-Dec-1994
Doctor of Philosophy Harvard University 31-Dec-2000

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Ordinary Member 01-Jul-2000 01-Jul-2008

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Scholarship Commonwealth of Australia Australian Higher Education Scheme Postgraduate Scholarship 01-Mar-1991
Other (Award) Commonwealth of Australia Australian Postgraduate Research Award 01-Mar-1992
Other (Award) The University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Award 01-Jul-2004
Other (Award) The University of Melbourne Community and Cultural Relations Committee Award 01-Dec-2006

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Framing Marginal Art: Developing an ethical, multi-dimensional framework for exhibiting art by people who experience mental illness and/or psychological trauma. Chief Investigator CUNNINGHAM DAX COLLECTION,
MUSEUM VIC,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF AUSTRALIA
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/07/2007

Additional Grant and Contract Information

Grants, Awards and Fellowships

Australian Research Council Linkage Project, 2007 - 2009

Community and Cultural Relations Committee Award, The University of Melbourne, 2006

Collaborative Research Grant, University of Melbourne, 2006

Visiting Senior Fellow, Centre for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of
Art, Washington D.C., 2006

Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, 2005

Publication Subsidy Grant , The University of Melbourne, 2005

Early Career Researcher Award, University of Melbourne, 2004

Harvard University Graduate Student Council Research Grant, 1999.

Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Completion, 1997-1998.

Charles Eliot Norton Travelling Fellowship, 1996.

Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research, 1995.

Mellon Fellowship for Summer Language Study/Summer Research, 1995.

Australian Postgraduate Research Award, 1992.

Australian Higher Education Scheme Postgraduate Scholarship, 1991.  

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Book Chapters

  • Wounded: Lucio Fontana's Wartime Sculpture in Italy and Argentina
    Year: 2009
    Book: Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence
    Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing(Parkville)
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Journal Articles

  • TV and not TV: Lucio Fontana's Luminous Images in Movement


     


    Year: 2009
    Journal: Grey Room
    Issue: 34
    Page numbers: 6-27
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  • Wastage of Effect: Newness, Expendability and Memory in 1960s Art
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Reading Room: a journal of art and culture
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 120-136
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Claude Monet; Gustave Courbet
    Year: 2008
    Book: Turner to Monet: The Triumph of Landscape Painting
    Publisher: National Gallery of Australia(Canberra)
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Journal Articles

  • Art Beyond the Globe: Lucio Fontana's Spatial Identity
    Year: 2008
    Journal: EMAJ - Electronic Melbourne Art Journal
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 1-13
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  • Industrial Painting's Utopia's: Lucio Fontana's "Expectations"
    Year: 2008
    Journal: October
    Volume: 124
    Issue: Spring
    Page numbers: 98-124
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Sequins and Glitter: Fashion, Spectacular Bodies and Twentieth-Century Art
    Year: 2008
    Event name: The Body: Connections with Fashion
    Conference Publication: The Body: Connections with Fashion
    Page numbers: 1-14
    Publisher: RMIT University(Melbourne)
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Reports

  • The Cunningham Dax Collection: Statement of Significance


     


    Year: 2008
    Publisher: The Cunningham Dax Collection(Parkville)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Paysages de Mer: Courbet's The wave
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Art Bulletin of Victoria
    Volume: 47
    Page numbers: 47-53
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  • From Kitsch to Space: Lucio Fontana’s Ceramics and the Spatial Environment


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Billedkunst: kritisk videnskabeligt tidsskrift
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 15-21
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  • Graeme Doyle, The Cunningham Dax Collection and Surrealist Discourse


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Papers of Surrealism
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 1-12
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  • Cut off from the stream
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Book Review
    Volume: 292
    Page numbers: 24-25
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  • Terra Incognita: Surrealism and the Pacific Region
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Papers of Surrealism
    Volume: 6
    Issue: Autumn
    Page numbers: [1-8]
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • 'Have Mary Janes Gone Up?' Participation and Disaffiliation in Oldenburgs 'The Store'
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Art and the Real: Documentary, Ethnography, Enactment
    Conference Publication: Art and the Real: Documentary, Ethnography, Enactment
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: Art Association of Australia & New Zealand(Sydney)
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  • Art and Mental Illness: An Art Historical Perspective
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Art and Mental Illness: Myths, Stereotypes and Reality
    Conference Publication: Art and Mental Illness: Myths, Stereotypes and Reality
    Page numbers: 24-29
    Publisher: Neami(Fairfield)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Beyond Van Gogh: art, mental illness and art history
    Year: 2006
    Book: For Matthew and others: journeys with schizophrenia
    Publisher: University of New South Wales
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Journal Articles

  • Editorial
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art
    Volume: 6/7
    Issue: 2/1
    Page numbers: 1-5
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  • Editorial
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-3
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  • Modernism and fascism: Italian abstract art in the 1930s and 1940s
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Center 26
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 161-163
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  • Review of The Art of Enigma: The De Chirico Brothers and the Politics of Modernism by Keala Jewell
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Papers of Surrealism
    Volume: 4
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Editorial
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-3
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  • No Form Can Be Spatial
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Art Bulletin of Victoria
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 45-51
    Publisher: National Gallery of Victoria(Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Lucio Fontana: The Post-Facist Masculine Figure
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Masculinities: Gender, Art and Popular Culture
    Conference Publication: Masculinities: Gender, Art and Popular Culture
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Abstract Art, Ethics and Interpretation: The case of Mario Radice
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 43-56
    Publisher: Art Association of Australia & New Zealand
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  • Editorial
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: Art Association of Australia & New Zealand
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  • The Movement that Rocked Art: Their Place in History
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Gallery
    Volume: 3-2004
    Page numbers: 20-22
    Publisher: Nuance Multimedia Australia(Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Abstract Art and Fascism in Como
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (New South Wales Chapter): Ethics and Aesthetics Conference
    Conference Publication: AAANZ Ethics and Aesthetics Conference 2003
    Page numbers: 1-7
    Publisher: Art Association of Australia & New Zealand(Sydney)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles
    Year: 2002
    Book: Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles
    Publisher: National Gallery of Australia(Canberra)
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Journal Articles

  • Art Metropolis: A New Display of International Art
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Art on View
    Volume: 2002-03
    Issue: 32
    Page numbers: 18-22
    Publisher: National Gallery of Australia(Canberra)
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  • Jackson Pollock-Before Blue Poles
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Art on View
    Volume: Spring 2002
    Issue: 31
    Page numbers: 14-16
    Publisher: National Gallery of Australia(Canberra)
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Reports

  • Sol Lewitt: Drawings, Prints and Books 1968-1988
    Year: 2002
    Customer: Report accompanying National Gallery of Australia Sol Lewitt Exhibition
    Publisher: National Gallery of Australia(Canberra)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • They are Vying for Shreds of her Garments; Jacques and Natasha; My Mother, Myself and the Universe
    Year: 2001
    Book: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
    Publisher: National Gallery of Australia(Canberra)
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Journal Articles

  • After Blue Poles
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Artonview
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 46-47
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  • Agnes Martin: on the empty beach
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Artonview
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 42-44
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  • Lucio Fontana: between Utopia and kitsch
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Grey Room
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 54-77
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  • Magic Realism: Mexican Women Artists in the Jacques and Natasha
    Gelman Collection
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Artonview
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 4-10
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