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From his line of Target homeware to his one-of-a-kind buildings, Michael Graves was inspired by the basic needs of everyday people.
In 1919, Ivy MacKusick, an art student at UCL’s Slade School of Fine Art, completed a Portrait of a Man in His Shirtsleeves. We know nothing about the man of African descent depicted in this portrait…
There’s a problem with the history of western art: we face it from the wrong side of decades of discursive dismantling. The conventional “story” of early 20th-century modernism, in which an advanced guard…
One of the biggest international art fairs is back. And London’s Frieze isn’t just about selling contemporary art, it’s an annual exhibition that defines and showcases the international art scene of today…
When most people think of Brisbane architecture, they usually picture a Queenslander: high-set, timber-and-corrugated iron houses that are ideally suited to subtropical conditions. Modernism fits into…
The gorgeous, ethereal photographic portrait shot of Virginia Woolf taken in 1902 by George Beresford has become the iconic image of her, ubiquitous on mugs, mouse-mats and tea-towels. This image certainly…
For you. You’ll soon. You’ll give her name. In the stitches of her skin she’ll wear your say. The foundational challenge of Eimear McBride’s novel is plainly visible in its opening lines, above: the incomplete…
I first came across modernism through the lens of postmodernism in the early 1980s. At that time postmodernism – explained here – was washing through the academy, promising to transform everything by placing…
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Clinical Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University at Buffalo
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Professor, University of Sydney
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Professor, Head of Visual Arts, Queensland University of Technology
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Reader in Historical Geography, UCL
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Senior Lecturer Art Theory, Monash University
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Professor of Art History, Newcastle University
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Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow
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Senior Research Associate, The University of Melbourne
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Research Student, Modernist Literature and Culture, King's College London
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Visiting Scholar, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer Visual and Material Culture, Nottingham Trent University
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
