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	Dr Toni Ross PhD BA(Hons) Syd. Senior Lecturer; Art History Honours Co- ordinator School of Art History and Art Education
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Academic Profile

Education

PhD , University of Sydney, Australia , 1997 .
BA (Hons) , University of Sydney, Australia , .

Areas of Expertise

Art History and Theory: Romanticism, Modernism, Post Sixties and Contemporary Art, Critical Theory, Aesthetic Theory, Feminist Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory, Film Theory.

Teaching Areas

Aesthetic Theory, Avant-Garde Cinema, History and Theories of Photography, International and Australian Contemporary Art.

Current Research Activity

1. Aesthetic Strategies in Neo-Conceptual Art: 1980s-1990s.
Drawing on recent developments in aesthetic theory, including Lacanian psychoanalysis, the project examines aesthetic strategies in Neo-Conceptual art of the 1980s and 1990s that have been overlooked in previous postmodern and anti-aesthetic interpretations. As an intervention in current international debates about the return of aesthetics in contemporary art and theory, the study reconsiders the relationship between aesthetic and ethical issues in conceptualist art of recent decades.

2. 'Design Art': since 1990
A vogue for 'design art' - work that exists at the intersection of art, design and architecture - became a widely recognised visual arts genre during the 1990s. To date, however, this marked tendency has received limited interpretation, evaluation or theoretical analysis. Toni's research project will form the first systematic theoretical and comparative account of such art based on case studies of key contemporary practitioners in this emerging field. Artists who make up the study include: Joe Scanlan, Andrea Zittel, Kathrin Bohm, Liam Gillick, Jorge Pardo, Atelier van Lieshout and Callum Morton.

Publications

Books

Ross, T. , 2000 , Refracting Vision: essays on the writings of Michael Fried , Sydney , Power Publications .

Book Chapters

Ross, T. (2005). Aesthetics, Ethics and Historicism in Gordon Bennett’s Art: A Response to Ian McLean. Radical Revisionism: An Anthology of Essays on Australian Art. (299 - 308). Brisbane, Institute of Modern Art.

Ross, T. (1999). The Inescapability of Sexual Difference: A Response to the Exhibition 'Discovering the Feminine. The National Women's Art Anthology. (68 - 73). Sydney, Craftsman House.

Refereed Journal Articles

Ross, T. (2006). Aesthetic Autonomy and Interdisciplinarity: a response to Nicolas Bourriaud's 'relational aesthetics'. Journal of Visual Arts Practice, (5.3). (167 - 181).

Published Articles

Meyer, J. Ross, T. (2004). Thematic Investigation: Aesthetic/Anti-Aesthetic. Art Journal, (63:2, Summer). ( - ).

Ross, T. (2003-2004). The Impossible Return of the Real: Questions of Medium in Contemporary Figurative Painting. La Part de L'Oeil, (19). (210 - 233).

Ross, T. (2002). Art in the 'Post-Medium' Era: aesthetics and conceptualism in the art of Jeff Wall. South Atlantic Quarterly, (101:3). (555 - 572).

Ross, T. (2000). Art and Objecthood' Three Decades On. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, (XIV:2). (41 - 54).

Grants

UNSW Faculty Research Grants Program, Research Grant. (2005),

UNSW Faculty Research Grants Program, Research Grant. (2004),

Australian Research Council, ARC Discovery Grant. (2003-2004),

Professional Associations

NSW Chapter of Art Association of Australia and New Zealand
Committee Member

Art Association of Australia and New Zealand
Member

International Association of Art Critics (AICA)
Member