Join us for the next CuSPP Seminar (taking place via zoom)

Thursday 25 November, 4.30 – 6pm (see CuSPP email or contact monique.rooney@anu.edu.au for zoom link).

Visual Culture and Australian Popular Media

This presentation explores histories of how the visual arts and art history have been covered in the Australian popular media. Focusing on popular magazines of the mid-twentieth century (such as Pix, The Australian Women’s Weekly, Australasian Post) it analyses under-considered examples of how these magazines presented art history to broad Australian audiences, as well as how these magazines facilitated and revealed diverse audience engagement with the arts. Through these case studies the presentation will argue for the benefits of using intermedial methodologies of popular art historiography, in order to trace and analyse histories of cultural value and popular arts engagement in Australia.

Kate Warren is a Lecturer of Art History and Curatorship at the Australian National University. Her research expertise is in modern and contemporary Australian and international art, with a focus on film, photography, video and media art. She has previously worked as a curator, arts writer and editor, including as Assistant Curator at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image from 2007 to 2011.

Alice Grundy is researching a PhD on Australian editing and publishing history. She has been an editor in trade publishing for more than a dozen years and has taught professional editing at UTS.