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Peter Brunt
Senior Lecturer
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Peter Brunt teaches Pacific art, Postcolonial art and theory, Primitivism and Art History methodology in the Art History programme of Victoria University of Wellington. He has research interests in Pacific art, art and cross-cultural encounter in the Pacific, and postcolonial art and theory.
Peter is on leave during trimester 1, 2010.
Teaching 2010
| ARTH 112 | Art History 2: After the Revolution |
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Other Teaching (Not Offered in 2010)
| ARTH 402 | 'Theory and Context: Pacific Art and Postcolonial Discourse |
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Contributions to Other Courses
| ARTH 401 | Art History Methodology (course coordinator alternate years) |
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| ARTH 111 | Art History1: Rock Art to Revolution |
| ARTH 113 | Thinking through Art |
Current Research Projects
Peter is currently working on the Art in Oceania project.
His research interests are:
- Pacific art
- Postcolonial art and theory
- Art and cross-cultural encounter in the Pacific
- Historiography.
Selected Publications
'The temptation of Brother Anthony: Decolonisation and the tattooing of Tony Fomison' in Tatau/Tattoo: Bodies, art and exchange in the Pacific and Europe, ed. Anna Cole and Nicholas Thomas, London: Reaktion Press, 2005 (copublished in the USA by Duke University Press)
'Since Choice!: Exhibiting the 'new Maori art' in On Display: New Essays in Cultural Studies, ed. Anna Smith and Lydia Wevers, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2004, pp 215-242
‘Savagery and the sublime: Two paintings by William Hodges based on an encounter with Maori in Dusky Bay, New Zealand.’ The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Fall 1997, pp 266-286
‘Afterword: Clumsy utopians’ in Diane Losche and Nicholas Thomas (eds), Double Vision: Art Histories and Colonial Histories in the Pacific, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp 257-274
‘Home time’, in Rebecca Wilson and Lara Strongman (eds), Gavin Hipkins: The Homely, Wellington: City Gallery, 2001, pp 22-27
‘Framing identity’ in Ian Wedde (ed), Fomison: What Shall We Tell Them?, Wellington: City Gallery, 1994, pp 63-75
‘Iceblink’, in Allan Smith (ed), Bright Paradise: Exotic History and Sublime Artifice, Auckland, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2001, pp 83-87.
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Awards and Achievements
- 2006 Marsden Grant - Art in Oceania project
- 2000 Getty Fellow, Summer Institute, World Art Studies, University of East Anglia
- 1992 Sage Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University
- 1991 Postgraduate Scholarship, University of Auckland.
Administrative Responsibilities
- Board member, Pacific Studies.
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