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Dr Caroline Jordan

Lecturer in Art History
Room: David Myers Buliding E108
Tel: (61 3) 9479 3300
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942
Email: c.jordan@latrobe.edu.au

 

 

Caroline Jordan joined the Program as Lecturer in Art History in 2008. She teaches courses in modernism, contemporary and Australian art. She has taught widely at universities and art schools in Melbourne and Sydney and recently completed an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne.

Caroline specialises in 19th and 20th century Australian art. Her book, Picturesque Pursuits: Colonial Women Artists and the Amateur Tradition was published by Melbourne University Press in 2005. Her most recent book, co-edited with Kate Darian-Smith, Richard Gillespie and Elizabeth Willis, is Seize the Day: Australia, Exhibitions and the World (Monash e-press, 2008). Caroline’s research interests include Australian art: colonial to modern, women artists, exhibition culture and the development of visual arts infrastructure in Australia. She is currently working towards a book on the foundation of regional art galleries in Victoria in the 19th century.

Research Projects

The Field of Artistic Production in Colonial Australia: People, Institutions, History.
Ballarat, Bendigo, Warrnambool and Geelong: four regional art galleries established in Victoria in the 19th century.
The Carnegie Corporation and the modernisation of Australian art in the 1930s to the 1950s, including the Corporation’s Exhibition of Australian Art to the USA and Canada, 1941 (with Dr Sarah Scott, Art History, Charles Darwin University)
Art and soul: the humanising role of public art in modernist architecture in Australia in the 1950s (with Dr Hannah Lewi, Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne).

Picturesque Pursuits
Research Publications

Caroline has published books, refereed articles, book chapters and reviews on Australian art in Australia and overseas. Her work has appeared in Art History (UK), Art and Australia and Art Monthly. She was co-editor of the prestigious Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art from 2004-6. Recent books and articles include

  • Picturesque Pursuits: Colonial Women Artists and the Amateur Tradition Melbourne University Press, 2005.
  • Kate Darian Smith, Richard Gillespie, Caroline Jordan and Elizabeth Willis, Seize the Day: Australia, Exhibitions and the World, Monash University e press, 2008.
  • Tom Roberts, Ellis Rowan, and the Struggle for Australian Art at the Great Exhibitions 1880 and 1888’ in K. Darian-Smith, R. Gillespie, C. Jordan and E. Willis, Seize the Day: Australia, Exhibitions and the World, Monash e-press, 2008.
  • ‘Buying in the Boom: George Folingsby and Victoria’s Nineteenth-century Regional Art Galleries’, Art and Australia. Vol. 45, no.3: 459-463, 2008.
  • Feeling your way: inside landscape’, Marian Drew: Photographs and Video Works, Queensland Centre for Photography, 2006.
  •  ‘Mrs MacPherson in the “Blacks’ Camp” and other Australian Interludes: A Scottish Lady Artist’s Tour in New South Wales in 1856-7’ in Jordana Pomeroy (ed.), Intrepid Women: Victorian Women Artists Travel, Ashgate, Aldershot UK, 2005.
  • Fletcher’s of Collins Street: Melbourne’s Leading Nineteenth-century Art Dealer, Alexander Fletcher’, Latrobe Journal, no. 75: Autumn: 77-93, 2005.
  • ‘Progress versus the Picturesque: White Women and the Aesthetics of Environmentalism in Colonial Australia 1820-60’, Art History, 25 (3), September: 341-57, 2002.
 
Graduate Supervision Areas and Topics

Caroline is interested in supervising in the areas of Australian art from colonial to contemporary, the representation of indigenous people in Australian art and visual culture, women and art, exhibition culture, public art, regional art and art galleries and museums.

 

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