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ProfessorMark Ledbury

Power Professor Art History and Visual Culture and Director of the Power Institute

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Power Professor Art History and Visual Culture and Director of the Power Institute
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Research projects & supervision summary

Project Opportunities

Title: History of European art

Summary of opportunity:

 

I currently supervise 3 PHD students on topics relating to Eighteenth-Century French art and culture. 

 

 

Opportunity synopsis:

 

Research interests

  • Eighteenth and nineteenth- century European art
  • Questions and definitions of genre in visual art
  • Relationships between theatre and visual art
  • Methods of art history
  • Eighteenth-century French artists, including Francois Boucher, Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Baptiste Greuze

 

----------Current Research Projects----------

  • An Eccentric History of History Painting– a study of the long history of the genre known as History Painting
  • Theatre, Art and Community in EIghteenth Century France - a book length study of the interarts-communities and their impact in eighteenth-century visual and theatrical culture

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • PROJECT
    The Visual Understanding Initiative
    MCA Australia1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2028
    Project leaders:
    • Ledbury M,
    • Williams M
    Collaborators:
    A Grant-Funded project to broaden our understanding of how and why we see, as people, cultures and societies, in the twenty-first century
    The Power Institute (opens in a new tab)MCA Australia (opens in a new tab)Visual Research Partnership (opens in a new tab)
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Amatrices and the Uses of Print in Eighteenth-Century France
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    François Boucher and the French Stage
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    From Sight to Sound: Musical Ekphrasis in the Long Nineteenth Century
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    La Femme Amateur and the Uses of Print in Eighteenth-Century France.
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Looking Forward to the Past: The Rotational Collection of Art at Australian Parliament House, 1981–2023
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Concert of Parts: Origins and Revolutions of the Trophy
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The impact of Jansenism on art theory and practice in France.
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Vitale da Bologna and the logic of painting