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Ann Elias

Ann Elias
Name Dr Ann Elias
PhD, University of Auckland
MA(first class hons), University of Auckland
BA, University of Auckland
Current Role(s)

Director Theoretical Enquiry
Senior Lecturer, Theoretical Enquiry
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Research

Ann Elias graduated with a PhD in Art History from the University of Auckland in 1991. She teaches the history of contemporary art to undergraduates, and supervises PhD candidates. Her research is primarily in the discipline of art history. She has published on the contemporary art of Matthys Gerber and Peter Peryer. Specialisations include still life painting, and aesthetics and war. Recent journal publications focus on camouflage in nature and war, the role of Max Dupain in camouflage research, the language of flowers in war, and the significance of floral imagery to Hans Heysen, George Lambert, Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton.

Forthcoming

  • A. Elias, ‘Camouflage Campaigners: America’s Abbott Thayer and
    Australia’s William Dakin’, Leonardo
  • A. Elias, ‘War and the Visual Language of Flowers: an
    antipodean perspective’, War, Literature and the Arts: an international journal of the humanities
  • A. Elias, ‘ “Art Has No Country”: Hans Heysen and the consequences of the First World War’, History Australia: journal of the Australian Historical Association

Publications 2003-2008

  • A. Elias, A, ‘William Dakin on Camouflage in Nature and War’, Journal of Australian Studies, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2008, pp. 251-263.
  • A. Elias, ‘Exquisite Corpse: flowers and the First World War’, The International Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 5, no. 3, 2007 pp.31-35
  • A. Elias, ‘War, Flowers and Visual Culture: the First World War Collection of the Australian War Memorial’, Journal of the Australian War Memorial, Issue 40, 2007 http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j40/elias.htm
  • A. Elias, ‘Moral Conflict, Cultural Pluralism, and Contemporary Visual Arts Education’, Transforming a University: the scholarship of teaching and learning in practice, Sydney, Sydney University Press, 2007, pp.39-47
  • A. Elias, ‘Intimate Relations: On the Fascination of Matthys Gerber for Theo Schoon’, Brisbane, Eyeline, no.60, 2006, pp.32-37
  • A. Elias, ‘Floral Imagery during the First World War’, Wartime: The Official Journal of the Australian War Memorial, issue 35, 2006, pp.58-59
  • A. Elias, ‘Peter Peryer’, Contemporary New Zealand Photographers, (Hannah Holm & Lara Strongman, eds), Auckland, Mountain View and Craig Potton Publishing, 2005, pp.80-88
  • A. Elias, ‘Most Secret: Australian camouflage artists in the Second World War’, Art and Australia, Fine Arts Press, Spring, vol.41, no.1, 2003, pp 102-108
  • A. Elias, ‘The Organisation of Camouflage in Australia in World War Two’ Journal of the Australian War Memorial, Issue 38, 2003, pp. 1-10, http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j38/camouflage.htm
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