Senior Lecturer & Head of Art & Design Theory
PhD
| Contact Campus | Hobart CBD Campuses |
| Building | Centre for the Arts, Art Theory, Level 1 |
| Room Reference | 1.5 |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 4338 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 4308 |
| L.Negrin@utas.edu.au |
Since 1989 Dr. Llewellyn Negrin has lectured in Art Theory in the School of Art at the University of Tasmania. She is currently head of and senior lecturer in Art Theory at the Tasmanian School of Art and Coordinator of Teaching and Learning. Llewellyn teaches a range of units in the undergraduate program. She also teaches at Honours level and supervises a number of Master of Fine Arts and PhD candidates.From Modernism to Postmodernism
Llewellyn studied at the University of Sydney where she gained a Bachelor of Arts with first class Honours in General Philosophy in 1980 and a Ph.D. in General Philosophy in 1988 with a thesis title Theories of Crisis in Art. In this thesis the writings of Lukacs, Adorno, Benjamin, Gadamer and Ortega Y Gasset, were examined, contrasting their differing approaches to the challenge to the autonomy of high art by mass culture. She tutored in the Department of General Philosophy at the University of Sydney from 1980 to 1984 before being appointed a tutor and then senior tutor in Social and Political Theory at Murdoch University W. A. where she taught from 1985 to 1988. Llewellyn joined the University of Tasmania in 1989 and has been head of Art and Design Theory at the School of art since 2001.
Llewellyn Negrin's chief research interests are:
For further information visit the University of Tasmania Research Listing