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).