Margaret Plant

Emeritus Professor Margaret Plant

  • Post Nominals: FAHA, OAM
  • Fellow Type: Fellow
  • Elected to the Academy: 1985

Biography

Margaret Plant, celebrated academic and author, is Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at Monash University and has a long and distinguished history with the University. She was a Professor of Visual Arts (1982-96) and has been Emeritus Professor from 1996 onwards.

Plant began her teaching career in 1962 as a tutor in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne in 1962. In 1968 she became Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at RMIT University; the first academic appointment of an art historian at an Australian art school.

Her research interests include Italian Art of the 14/15th centuries, Venetian culture 1797-2000, Australian art in the 20th century, European 20th century modernism and post-modernism.

Her publications include John Perceval (1971), Paul Klee: Figures and Faces (1978), Studies in Australian Art, Ed with Ann Galbally (1978), Painting Australia, A Child’s Guide to Australian Paintings (1995), Venice, Fragile City, 1797 – 1997 (2002), Love and Lament, An Essay on the Arts in Australia in the Twentieth Century (2017).

Acknowledgement of Country

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