Emeritus Professor
Andrew Mcnamara
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Practice,
Visual Arts
Biography
Professor Andrew McNamara teaches art history and theory, in Visual Arts in the Creative Industries Faculty of QUT. His research interests include modernism; contemporary art; Australian and indigenous art; design and architecture; critical cultural theory in relation to technology, society and media; and aesthetics.His most recent publications include: Undesign (Routledge, 2018); Surpassing Modernity: Ambivalence in Art, Politics and Society (Bloomsbury, London, 2018/19); and with Philip Goad, Ann Stephen, Harriet Edquist and Isabel Wünsche, Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming Education through Art, Design and Architecture (Miegunyah and Power, 2019).
He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
For further publications details, see Eprints, but also Academia: https://qut.academia.edu/andrewmcnamara
Personal details
Positions
- Emeritus Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Practice,
Visual Arts
Keywords
Aesthetics - philosophy, Architectural history & theory, Art and architecture, Art history, Australian art, Contemporary art, Cultural history, Indigenous art & culture, Modernism in art, built environment & spatial theory
Research field
Visual Arts and Crafts, Art Theory and Criticism, Other Language, Literature and Culture
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Sydney)
- MA(Hons) (University of Sydney)
- BA (University of Sydney)
Professional memberships and associations
- Professor, Art history/theory; Visual Arts, Creative Industries faculty.
- Chair, Australian committee, Comité International d’Histoire de l’art (CIHA)
- International committee, EAM (European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernist Studies
- Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities;
- Fellow, Queensland Academy of Art and Sciences (QAAS);
- Peer reviewer, Australian Research Council;
- National Advisory board of the Australian Modernist Studies Network (AMSN);
- Organizing committee, European Network for Avant-garde and modernist studies (EAM)
- Editorial board, Eyeline magazine and Art Monthly Australia;
- Executive, Brisbane Consortium for the Visual Arts.
Experience
Prof McNamara is chair of the Australian committee of CIHA, Comité International d’Histoire de l’art. In addition, he is on the national executive of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) and on the executive of the international committee of the EAM, the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernist Studies. He is currently focused on a number of research projects, including an ARC Discovery project, Bauhaus Australia: Transforming Education in Art, Architecture and Design.
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Publications
- McNamara, A., (2019). Surpassing modernity: Ambivalence in art, politics and society. Bloomsbury Academic. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/112679
- Coombs, G., McNamara, A. & Sade, G. (2018). Undesign: Critical practices at the intersection of art and design. Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/95757
- McNamara, A. & Stephen, A. (2018). A cartography of desires and taboos: The modern primitive and the antipodes. In P. Meecham (Ed.), A companion to modern art (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History, 13) (pp. 37–53). John Wiley & Sons. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/116214
- Stephen, A. & McNamara, A. (2015). The modern primitive and the Antipodes: the visual arts and Oceania. In S. Ross & AC. Lindgren (Eds.), The Modernist World (Routledge Worlds series) (pp. 291–298). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/86491
- McNamara, A., (2011). Sweat: The Subtropical Imagery. Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/54806
- McNamara, A., (2009). An apprehensive aesthetic: The legacy of modernist culture. Peter Lang Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/29848
- McNamara, A., (2009). The colour of modernism: Colour-form experiments in Europe and Australia. In S. Bru, T. Orum, J. Baetens, P. Nicholls, B. Hjartarson & H. van den Berg (Eds.), Europa! Europa? The Avant-Garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent (pp. 494–513). Mouton de Gruyter Publisher. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/31458
- Goad, P., McNamara, A. & Stephen, A. (2008). Modern Times : The Untold Story of Modernism in Australia. Melbourne University Press/The Miegunyah Press.
- Stephen, A., McNamara, A. & Goad, P. (2006). Modernism & Australia: Documents on Art, Design and Architecture 1917-1967. Miegunyah Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/6716
- McNamara, A. & Krapp, P. (2002). Medium Cool. Duke University Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/12189
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Andrew, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Fellow, the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (QAAS).
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Dean's award for excellence in research - highly commended. 15 April 2003
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- 2010 book of the year awarded to 2010 book of the year awarded to An Apprehensive Aesthetic: The Legacy of Modern Art from the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Winner of the 2007 Art Association of Australia & New Zealand Power Institute Prize for Best Book:Modernism & Australia: Documents on Art, Design & Architecture 1917-1967
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2007
- Details
- Dean's award for excellence in postgraduate supervision - highly commended. 10 May 2005
- Type
- Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities (November 2012).
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- QUT, Vice-Chancellor's AwardIn recognition of a significant and superior contribution to the work of the University.
Selected research projects
- Title
- Bauhaus Australia: Transforming Education in Art, Architecture and Design
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP160103820
- Start year
- 2016
- Keywords
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- The Importance of the Deutsche Luxfer Prismen Syndikat, the Victoria Regia Lily and Gothic Imitation in the Design of Bruno Taut's Glashaus (2015)
- Unravelling Design: Fashion, Dressmaking, Ethos (2011)
- Rephrasing Voice: Art, Practice-led Research and the Limits and Sites of Articulacy (2010)
- op writing: Text Ornamenting Vision (2008)
- The Indefinitive Self: subject as process in visual art (2005)
- Looking Through Conceptual Art: A Dialouge between Ian Burn and His Collaborators (2004)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- Performing Morality: A Framework For Assessing The Moral Significance Of Selected Works Of Postdramatic Performance (2014)
- Ocular Occupations: Painting and Other Spatio-Visual Strategies for Making and Inhabiting Architecture (2008)
- A Cause for Animation: Harry Reade and the Cuban Revolution (2007)
- Language, Silence and Ideal Viewing Positions: the critical reception of Barnett Newman (2005)