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Dr Keith Broadfoot

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BA Syd
PhD Syd

Phone: +61 2 9351 6906
Fax: +61 2 9351 4212
Location: Room 226, RC Mills Building
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Research Interests

  • Modernism
  • Australian art/film
  • Theories of spectatorship

Selected Publications

Essays, Articles and Book Chapters

  • 2012 ‘Banishing the Thing: Abstraction and Australian Sculpture’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Vol. 12
  • 2012 ‘Seeing Scale: Structuralism in the Sixties’ EMAJ: Electronic Melbourne Art Journal, Issue 6, 2011/2012
  • 2011 ‘Drawing as Outside Art History: A Response to Drawing Now’, TRACEY Journal, Representation Issue
  • 2011 ‘The Australian Tableau’, Eyeline, no. 75, 2011, pp. 42 – 47
  • 2011 ‘leak’, in Rosemary Laing, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne (with R. Butler)
  • 2011 ‘Decades Past and Present’, in Richard Dunn, Factory 49 Gallery, Sydney
  • 2010 ‘Optronic Kinetics’, in Into the Light: 150 Years of Cultural Treasures at the University of Sydney, ed. David Ellis, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2010
  • 2010 ‘Looking at Mirrors’, in Mirror Mirror then and now, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, catalogue for exhibition curated by Ann Stephen
  • 2006 ‘Baudrillard, Perspective and the Void of Architecture’, in Mass, Identity, Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard, ed. Francesco Proto, Wiley Press, London (with R. Butler)
  • 2006 ‘Lost in Transit: The Non-Place of Installation’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Vol. 7, No. 2
  • 2005 ‘After The Field’, Radical Revisionism, ed. Rex Butler, IMA Publications, Brisbane
  • 2005 ‘The Light of the Literal: Richard Dunn’s Shadowzone’, Projects 2005, ed. Nicholas Tsoutas, Artspace Publications, Sydney
  • 2002 ‘A Fold in Time: Anne MacDonald and the Origin of Photography’, Value Added Goods, ed. Stuart Koop, CCP Publications, Melbourne
  • 2002 ‘Abstraction and Aura’, South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 101, No. 2
  • 2002 ‘Perspective Yet Again: Damisch with Lacan’, Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1
  • 2001 ‘Las Meninas and the King’s Two Bodies’, Word & Image, Vol. 17. No. 3
  • 2001 ‘The End of the Line: Installation Art Today’, What is Installation: An anthology of writings on Australian Installation art, eds. Adam Geczy and Benjamin Genocchio, Power Publications, Sydney
  • 2000 ‘Geometric Painting after the Field’, Reflections on Geometric Painting, ed. Nicholas Tsoutas, Artspace Publications, Sydney
  • 2000 ‘Before and After Pollock’, Refracting Vision: essays on the writings of Michael Fried, eds. Jill Beaulieu, Mary Roberts and Toni Ross, Power Publications, Sydney
  • 2000 ‘In the Name of Painting’, Postwest, No. 16
  • 2000 ‘Landscape as Blank: Australian Art after the Monochrome’, Australian Journal of Art, Vol. XIV, No. 2