COFA TALKS

Who tells the stories that make our art history?

WHEN WHERE WHO COST

6pm College of Fine Arts, Catherine De Lorenzo Free and Open to
July 27th 2010 cnr Oxford Street and Joanna Mendelssohn the Public
Greens Road, lecture
theatre: EGO2

In Who tells the stories that make our art history? Joanna Mendelssohn is Associate Professor at
Catherine De Lorenzo and Joanna Mendelssohn the School of Art History and Art Education within
discuss how art history is not only formed by the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. She is actively
books but also by art exhibitions. involved in researching content for the Dictionary of
Australian Artists Online. Joanna Mendelssohn has
Catherine De Lorenzo is an art historian and senior written widely as an Australian art critic and is the
lecturer in the Architecture Program of the Faculty author of several books.
of the Built environment, UNSW. Much of what
drives her research into photography, public art
and architecture is to examine the extent to which
modalities of representation and expression are
responsive to cross cultural exchange.
De Lorenzo has served on the juries of various public
art awards and competitions as well as contributing
to numerous publications in an editorial capacity.

IMAGE Giselle Stanborough, G is for, a large drawn installation work that reinterprets seminal paintings from Western Art History by artists beginning with G (Gainsborough,
Gentileschi, Gericault, Gerome, et al.), 2008

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