Emeritus Professor
Andrew Mcnamara
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative 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 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, Art history, theory and criticism, Other language, communication and culture
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
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
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).
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A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/a.mcnamara
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)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.