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	Associate Professor Alan Krell PhD Brist., MA BA Cape T. Associate Professor; BAT Co- ordinator School of Art History and Art Education
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Academic Profile

Education

PhD (Manet and the Nude in the 1860s) , Bristol University, UK , 1978 .
MA (Art History and Theory) , University of Cape Town, South Africa , .
BA (Art History and Theory) , University of Cape Town, South Africa , .

Areas of Expertise

French 19th Century Realism and Impressionism and the contemporary critical response. Early twentieth-century European avant-gardes. The cultural history of barbed wire. The politics of (art's) display and installation.

Teaching Areas

Mapping the Modern (1850-WW2) and Mapping the Post Modern (1950s to the present). Contexts for Art which examines contemporary art in situ and considers how taste and value are mediated by place and modes of display. The Production of Art: aspects of museum and gallery practice (curating, conservation, public programmes, etc) are presented as subjects for practical consideration as well as theoretical study. The Painting of Modern Life: French and British Painting in Focus 1850-1890.

Current Research Activity

Alan Krell is researching the different representations and (literal) use of fire in the visual arts and popular culture for a book provisionally titled Burning Issues to be published by Reaktion Books, London, in 2007. The project takes as its theoretical thrust the janus-like character of fire. As Gaston Bachelard puts it, fire "is gentleness and torture. It is cookery and it is apocalypse..." (The Psychoanalysis of Fire, 1964).

Publications

Books

Krell, A. , 2002 , The Devil's Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed Wire , London , Reaktion Books .

Krell, A. , 1996 , Manet and the Painters of Contemporary Life , London , Thames & Hudson .

Book Chapters

Krell, A. (1998). Dirt and Desire: Troubled Waters in Realist Practice. Impressions of French Modernity: Art and Literature 1850-1900. ( - ). Manchester & New York, Manchester University Press.

Authored Catalogues

Krell, A. (2005). 'In its element'. Fireworks: tracing the incendiary in Australian art, Gavin Wilson. Sydney.

Professional Associations

Art Gallery of New South Wales