The School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (MCASI) at Curtin University is offering a PhD Scholarship in the area of art and war. The position is funded by MCASI and is part of the Art in Conflict research project, receiving Australian Research Council Linkage Projects funding. Art in Conflict is a three-year project examining contemporary war art at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. The project is led by Curtin University in partnership with the Australian War Memorial (AWM) and the National Trust (NSW), including researchers from the University of Melbourne, UNSW and University of Manchester.
The PhD candidate will enrol at Curtin University and will ideally be based in Perth, Western Australia, for the duration of the Scholarship, with an additional annual allowance for travel and accommodation to Canberra to work with the collection and archive of the Australian War Memorial. The PhD Scholar will ideally commence their research as soon as possible after 4 July 2018.
Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:
a comparative study of official and non-official responses to war by contemporary artists;
a comparison of the three major contemporary war art commissioning schemes (UK, Canada, Australia);
a study of how a war art commission affects contemporary artists’ subsequent work;
a comparative study of the work of Official War Artists and the work of artists from adversary countries.
a comparative study of official and non-official responses to war by contemporary artists;
a comparison of the three major contemporary war art commissioning schemes (UK, Canada, Australia);
a study of how a war art commission affects contemporary artists’ subsequent work;
a comparative study of the work of Official War Artists and the work of artists from adversary countries.
https://scholarships.curtin.edu.au/scholarships/scholarship.cfm?id=3340