Staff profile
Dr Caroline Jordan
Lecturer, History Honours Coordinator
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Historical and European StudiesDMB E108, Melbourne (Bundoora)
- T: +61 3 9479 3300
- F: +61 3 9479 1942
- E: c.jordan@latrobe.edu.au
Area of study
Art History
Brief Profile
aroline Jordan joined the Program as Lecturer in Art History in 2008. She teaches courses in modernism, contemporary and Australian art. 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 interests
Art History
- Australian Art
- Women and Art
Art Theory
- Exhibition Culture
Teaching Units
ARH2/3AAE - Australia: Environment and Visual Culture.
Recent Publications
Darian Smith, K, Gillespie, R, Jordan, C and Willis, E 2008 Seize the Day: Australia, Exhibitions and the World, Melbourne: Monash University e press.
Jordan, C 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. Melbourne: Monash University e-press.
Jordan, C 2008, ‘Buying in the Boom: George Folingsby and Victoria’s Nineteenth-century Regional Art Galleries’. Art and Australia. 45(3): 459-463.
Jordan, C 2006, ‘Feeling Your Way: inside landscape’. Marian Drew: Photographs and Video Works. Queensland Centre for Photography.
Jordan, C 2005, Picturesque Pursuits: Colonial Women Artists and the Amateur Tradition. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
Jordan, C 2005, ‘Mrs MacPherson in the “Blacks’ Camp” and other Australian Interludes: A Scottish Lady Artist’s Tour in New South Wales in 1856-7’. In Intrepid Women: Victorian Women Artists Travel, ed. Jordana Pomeroy. Aldershot UK: Ashgate.
Jordan, C 2005, ‘Fletcher’s of Collins Street: Melbourne’s Leading Nineteenth-century Art Dealer, Alexander Fletcher’. Latrobe Journal, 75: 77-93.
Jordan, C 2002, ‘Progress versus the Picturesque: White Women and the Aesthetics of Environmentalism in Colonial Australia 1820-60’. Art History. 25(3): 341-57.
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).
