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Llewellyn Negrin
Llewellyn Negrin
Adjunct Senior Researcher
Art | School of Creative Arts and Media
Centre for the Arts, Hunter Street , Hobart CBD Campuses
Dr Llewellyn Negrin is an Adjunct Senior Researcher (previously Senior Lecturer in Critical Practices, Coordinator of Art and Design Theory and School Coordinator of Learning and Teaching) at the School of Creative Arts. She has taught at the University of Tasmania since 1989 and has published extensively in the areas of theories of fashion and the role of aesthetics in contemporary culture including her book Appearance and Identity: Fashioning the Body in Postmodernity.
Biography
Before joining the University of Tasmania, Llewellyn Negrin was a tutor and senior tutor in Social and Political Theory at Murdoch university, Western Australia from 1985-1988 and a tutor in General Philosophy at the University of Sydney from 1980-1984. She completed her BA Hons (1980) and PhD(1988) in the Department of General Philosophy at the University of Sydney (Australia).
Career summary
Qualifications
| Degree | Title of Thesis | University | Country | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | Theories of Crisis in Art | University of Sydney | Australia | 1988 |
| BA (Hons) | General Philosophy | University of Sydney | Australia | 1980 |
Memberships
Committee associations
Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ)
Administrative expertise
School coordinator of Learning and Teaching, School of Creative Arts
Teaching
From Modernism to Postmodernism; Fashioning the Body and Imaging the Body
Teaching expertise
Llewellyn has extensive experience supervising Research Higher Degree candidates undertaking PhDs in Art Theory and MFAs (i.e. Masters of Fine Arts). She has also supervised a number of Honours candidates and teach one of the core units in the BFA Honours program.
Teaching responsibility
- Introduction to Art and Design Theory 1A (FST101)
- Introduction to Art and Design Theory 1B (FST102)
- From Modernism to Postmodernism (FST203)
- Defining the Field (FSA413)
- Fashioning the Body (FST207) and (FST307)
- Imaging the Body (FST214) and (FST314)
Research Invitations
She has been invited to write articles for several anthologies on fashion theory including Thinking through Fashion ed. by A. Rocamora and A. Smelik; Carnal Knowledge: Towards a New Materialism through the Arts ed. by B. Bolt and E. Barrett; Fashion and Art ed. by A. Geczy and V. Karaminasand Rei Kawakubo ed. by R. Butler as well as an article for a special edition on 'Embodied Subjectivity in late Capitalism' for the journal Subjectivity.
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Expertise
- Theories of fashion and the body
- The role of aesthetics in contemporary culture
Research Themes
Llewellyn's research aligns to the University's research theme of Creativity, Culture and Society. Her research interests include: theories of fashion and the body; the role of aesthetics in contemporary culture; images of the female body and the impact of postmodernism on the practice and reception of art.
Much of her recent research has focused on an analysis of the role that appearance plays in the construction of identity in contemporary culture. This includes an investigation of such practices as cosmetic surgery; the wearing of cosmetics; tattooing; female and male dress and poverty chic. In the process, she has interrogated the concept of the self as masquerade, which has been prevalent in recent theorisations of the body, and has examined how this concept has been addressed in the work of recent artists such as Cindy Sherman and Yasumasa Morimura. Drawing on phenomenological theories of the body, she has also explored how the work of fashion designers such as Rei Kawakubo and Issey Miyake can be understood as an embodied art form.
In her research into the role of aesthetics in contemporary culture, she has investigated how art has been harnessed in the promotion of commodities such as fashion and fine wine and also how the contemporary aestheticisation of commodities has been interrogated by designers such as Rei Kawakubo in her adoption of an anti-glamour aesthetic.
Earlier research examined the changing role of the museum and of art criticism in the context of postmodern culture.
Fields of Research
- Gender relations (440504)
- Visual cultures (360104)
- Fine arts (360602)
- Visual arts (360699)
- Art history, theory and criticism (360199)
- Gender studies (440599)
- Cultural theory (470207)
- Art theory (360103)
- Art criticism (360101)
- Aesthetics (500301)
- Consumption and everyday life (470203)
Research Objectives
- The creative arts (130103)
- Arts (130199)
- Other culture and society (139999)
- Expanding knowledge in human society (280123)
- Expanding knowledge in creative arts and writing studies (280122)
- Communication (130299)
- Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture (280116)
Publications
In 2008 she published a book Appearance and Identity: Fashioning the Body in Postmodernity, Palgrave MacMillan, New York and has published widely in journals such as Theory, Culture & Society; Body & Society; Philosophy & Social Criticism; Feminist Theory; European Journal of Cultural Studies: Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies and Arena. She has also published chapters in several edited anthologies on fashion and art, and fashion theory.
Total publications
35
Highlighted publications
(4 outputs)| Year | Type | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Book | Negrin L, 'Appearance and Identity: Fashioning the Body in Postmodernity', Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 200. ISBN 978-0-230-60762-0 (2008) [Authored Other Book] | |
| 2006 | Journal Article | Negrin L, 'Ornament and the feminine', Feminist Theory, 7, (2) pp. 219-235. ISSN 1464-7001 (2006) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1177/1464700106064421 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 8 | |
| 2005 | Journal Article | Negrin L, 'Art and philosophy Rivals or partners?', Philosophy and social criticism, 31, (7) pp. 801-822. ISSN 0191-4537 (2005) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1177/0191453705057304 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 1 | |
| 2002 | Journal Article | Negrin L, 'Cosmetic surgery and the eclipse of identity', Body and Society, 8, (4) pp. 21-42. ISSN 1357-034X (2002) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1177/1357034X02008004002 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 104 |
Journal Article
(16 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Negrin L, 'The dialectical nature of Cindy Sherman's fashion photographs', Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, 11, (2) pp. 129-152. ISSN 2040-4417 (2020) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1386/csfb_00013_1 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Web of Science - 1 | |
| 2015 | Negrin L, 'The Contemporary Significance of 'Pauperist' Style', Theory, Culture and Society, 32, (7-8) pp. 197-213. ISSN 0263-2764 (2015) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1177/0263276414536235 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 4Web of Science - 2 | |
| 2015 | Negrin L, 'Art and Fine Wine: A Case Study in the Aestheticization of Consumption', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 29, (3) pp. 419-433. ISSN 1030-4312 (2015) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2015.1025357 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 2Web of Science - 2 | |
| 2007 | Negrin L, 'The Contradictory Nature of our Relation to Beauty in Contemporary Culture', The International Journal of the Arts in Society, 1, (3) pp. 135-140. ISSN 1833-1866 (2007) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2006 | Negrin L, 'Ornament and the feminine', Feminist Theory, 7, (2) pp. 219-235. ISSN 1464-7001 (2006) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1177/1464700106064421 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 8 | |
| 2005 | Negrin L, 'Art and philosophy Rivals or partners?', Philosophy and social criticism, 31, (7) pp. 801-822. ISSN 0191-4537 (2005) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1177/0191453705057304 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 1 | |
| 2004 | Negrin L, '`Cosmetic Surgery as Cultural Practice - a review of Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences by K. Davis', Theory and Psychology, 14, (4) pp. 566-568. ISSN 1038-846X (2004) [Letter or Note in Journal] | |
| 2003 | Negrin L, 'Review of the Third Text Reader on Art, Culture and Theory', Media International Australia: Culture and Policy, 107, (May 2003) pp. 146-7. ISSN 0704-9161 (2003) [Letter or Note in Journal] | |
| 2002 | Negrin L, 'Cosmetic surgery and the eclipse of identity', Body and Society, 8, (4) pp. 21-42. ISSN 1357-034X (2002) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1177/1357034X02008004002 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 104 | |
| 2000 | Negrin L, 'Cosmetics and the female body. A critical appraisal of poststructuralist theories of masquerade', European Journal of Cultural Studies, 3, (1) pp. 83-101. ISSN 1367-5494 (2000) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2000 | Negrin L, 'Some thoughts on 'primitive' body decoration', Postcolonial Studies, 3, (3) pp. 331-335. ISSN 1368-8790 (2000) [Refereed Article] | |
| 1999 | Negrin L, 'The Self as Image: A Critical Appraisal of Postmodern Theories of Fashion', Theory, Culture & Society, 16, (3) pp. 99-118. ISSN 0263-2764 (1999) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1177/02632769922050638 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 32Web of Science - 21 | |
| 1998 | Negrin L, 'The Antinomies of Postmodern neo-Classicism', Arena Journal, (11) pp. 61-81. ISSN 1320-6567 (1998) [Refereed Article] | |
| 1997 | Negrin L, 'A Cheap Shot at Frocks? Reply to Tara Brabazon's 'What Will You Wear to the Revolution? Thatcher's Genderation and the Fashioning of Change'', Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation, 23, (1) pp. 117-124. ISSN 0311-4198 (1997) [Refereed Article] | |
| 1996 | Negrin L, 'Feminism and fashion: a critical appraisal', Arena Journal, (6) pp. 75-86. ISSN 1320-6567 (1996) [Refereed Article] | |
| 1996 | Negrin L, 'The Meaning of Dress', Arena Journal, (7) pp. 131-146. ISSN 1039-1010 (1996) [Refereed Article] |
Book
(1 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Negrin L, 'Appearance and Identity: Fashioning the Body in Postmodernity', Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 200. ISBN 978-0-230-60762-0 (2008) [Authored Other Book] |
Chapter in Book
(7 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Negrin L, 'Rei Kawakubo: Agent Provocateur in a Hyper-Glamourized World', Rei Kawakubo: For and Against Fashion, Bloomsbury Publishing, Butler, R (ed), United Kingdom ISBN 9781350118225 (In Press) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2016 | Negrin L, 'Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Corporeal Experience of Fashion', Thinking through Fashion: A guide to key theorists, I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, Agnes Rocamora and Anneke Smelik (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 115-131. ISBN 9781780767338 (2016) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2013 | Negrin L, 'Fashion as an Embodied Art Form', Carnal Knowledge Towards a 'New Materialism' through the Arts, I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, Barbara Bolt and Estelle Barrett (ed), London and New York, pp. 141-154. ISBN 978 1 78076 265 4 (2013) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2012 | Negrin L, 'Aesthetics: Fashion and Aesthetics - a fraught relationship', Fashion and Art, Berg, A Geczy and V Karaminas (ed), London, UK, pp. 43-54. ISBN 9781847887832 (2012) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2008 | Negrin L, 'Body Art and Men's Fashion', Appearance and Identity: fashioning the body in postmodernity, Palgrave Macmillan, L Negrin (ed), New York, pp. 97-115. ISBN 978-0-230-60762-0 (2008) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2008 | Negrin L, 'Appearance and Identity', Appearance and Identity: fashioning the body in postmodernity, Palgrave Macmillan, L Negrin (ed), New York, pp. 9-32. ISBN 978-0-230-60762-0 (2008) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2008 | Negrin L, 'The Postmodern Gender Carnival', Appearance and identity: fashioning the body in postmodernity, Palgrave Macmillan, L Negrin (ed), New York, pp. 139-161. ISBN 978-0-230-60762-0 (2008) [Research Book Chapter] |
Review
(2 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Negrin L, 'Landmarks and Curiosities', Art and Australia, 36, (2) pp. 194-196. (1998) [Review Several Works] | |
| 1997 | Negrin L, 'After a Fashion by J. Finkelstein', Arena Magazine, Dec/Jan, (26) pp. 54-55. (1997) [Review Single Work] |
Conference Publication
(6 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Negrin L, 'Fashion as Art or Art as Fashion?', 6th Global Conference on Fashion, 15 - 18 September, Mansfield College, Oxford University (2014) [Non Refereed Conference Paper] | |
| 2014 | Negrin L, 'Art Meets Fashion: A Paradoxical Partnership - The Case of Cindy Sherman's Fashion Photographs', Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, 5-8 December, Launceston (2014) [Non Refereed Conference Paper] | |
| 2013 | Negrin L, 'The Paradoxical Nature of 'Pauperist' Style as Haute Couture', Trending Now: New Developments in Fashion Studies, September 2012, Oxford University, pp. 13-23. ISBN 978-1-84888-211-9 (2013) [Non Refereed Conference Paper] | |
| 2010 | Negrin L, 'Fashion and Art', ACUADS 2010 Annual Conference, 1-3 September 2010, Launceston, Tasmania (2010) [Non Refereed Conference Paper] | |
| 2009 | Negrin L, 'Art and Gastronomy: An analysis of the significance of the new cultural spaces that blur the boundary between art and the food and wine experience', Socioaesthetcis Conference, August, Copenhagen, pp. 1-29. (2009) [Non Refereed Conference Paper] | |
| 2003 | Negrin L, 'The paradox of the Return of the Body in post 1950s Body Art', Survey:Current art and design research and practice within Australia tertiary art and design schools, 1 - 4 Oct. 2003, tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania EJ (2003) [Refereed Conference Paper] |
Major Creative Work
(2 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Negrin L, 'Personal Coercion: A Visual Investigation into a State of Multiculturalism', Nexus Gallery, Adelaide, pp. 1 (1998) [Recorded Creative Work] | |
| 1995 | Scott MG, Swann H, Negrin L, 'The Collectible Eggbeater', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania at Hobart, Hobart, pp. 34 (1995) [Recorded Creative Work] Co-authors: Scott MG |
Entry
(1 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Negrin L, 'Fashion', The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship and Sexuality, Sears, James T. (ed), Westport, 6, pp. 80 - 83 (2008) [Entry] |
Grants & Funding
Funding Summary
Number of grants
2
Total funding
Projects
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($900)
- Scheme
- Grant-Conference Support Scheme
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Negrin L
- Year
- 2012
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($1,575)
- Scheme
- Grant-Conference Support Scheme
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Negrin L
- Year
- 2009
Research Supervision
She has extensive experience of supervising RHD candidates over the last 20 years. She is currently supervising 11 RHD candidates covering a wide range of topics in Art Theory as well as some studio-based candidates whose work deals with themes relate to my research interests.
Current
4
Completed
52
Current
| Degree | Title | Commenced |
|---|---|---|
| PhD | Meta Graphic Novel: Questioning and exploring the graphic novel in an expanded form as storytelling technic and visual art exhibition project | 2017 |
| PhD | Virtual Femininity: A photographic exploration of the idealised body in digital self-imaging practices | 2018 |
| Unknown | Transformative Making and Narrative: A visual exploration of objects and place through the archive | 2020 |
| Masters | Paper Towns and Abandoned Places: Contemporary jewellery and object responses to what we take, what we cast off and what could have been | 2021 |
Completed
| Degree | Title | Completed |
|---|---|---|
| PhD | Einfhlung and Association: Landscape painting in nineteenth century Van Diemen's Land/Tasmania Candidate: Philip John Hutch | 2021 |
| Masters | Climatic Embodiment: A visual exploration of climate change as expressed by the human body Candidate: Eva Louise Nilssen | 2021 |
| PhD | Migratory Aesthetics, Pastiche and Painting: An exploration of migratory experience Candidate: Neil Jefford Haddon | 2021 |
| PhD | A Painterly Exploration of the Pain Altered Mind Body Connection Candidate: Stephen John Woodbury | 2020 |
| Masters | An Exploration of the Boat form and the Element of Water through Craft based Sculptural Works Candidate: Nicholas James Randall | 2019 |
| PhD | Unstable Territories: Imaging and imagining the contemporary ruin Candidate: Helen Ruth Wright | 2019 |
| Masters | Affect and the Anthropocene: The art artefact and ecological grief Candidate: Catherine Faye Phillips | 2019 |
| PhD | A Matrixial Gaze: Portrayals of the male nude by female artists Candidate: Annie Rosemary Geard | 2019 |
| Masters | Internalised Landscapes: The vessel form in sculptural response to place Candidate: Timothy Charles Sidebottom | 2019 |
| Masters | The Golden Years: Reimaging postmenopausal womanhood Candidate: Janine Helen Miller | 2019 |
| Masters | Song in a Strange Land: An investigation, in paint, into the music of Arauco Libre Candidate: Ronald Alan Wilson | 2018 |
| Masters | Poem Number 124: Visualizing the material folds and sacred spaces in Emily Dickinson's poem, through printmaking Candidate: Jane Slade | 2017 |
| PhD | Biomorphic Loop: Visualising patterns of growth Candidate: Linda Sylvia Erceg | 2017 |
| PhD | Beautiful, Dead, Dissected: The dismembered female body in artistic representation Candidate: Neil Graham Holmstrom | 2017 |
| PhD | The Iconography of Contemporary Tibetan Art: Deconstruction, reconstruction and iconoclasm Candidate: Angela Mary Ryan | 2017 |
| PhD | Expatriatism: A New Platform for Shaping Australian Artistic Practice in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries - A Case Study of Six Artists Working in Paris and London Candidate: Stephen Geoffrey Rainbird | 2016 |
| Masters | 'Unsettling Space: Trauma and Architecture in Contemporary Art' Candidate: Eliza Kate Burke | 2015 |
| PhD | Imagined Portraits: Reviving Figures from Australia's Past Candidate: Amy Elizabeth Jackett | 2013 |
| PhD | Printmaking and the Language of Violence Candidate: Yvonne Diana Rees-Pagh | 2013 |
| PhD | Future Clan: The Dynamics of Adolescence and Mothers Candidate: Gabrielle Louise Falconer | 2012 |
| Masters | Keeping up Appearances: A Photographic Investigation into the Theatricality of the Suburban Domestic Interior Candidate: Nicole Louise Robson | 2012 |
| PhD | The Politics of Imperfection: the Critical Legacy of Surrealist Anti-colonialism Candidate: Maria Kunda | 2010 |
| PhD | Wired and Dangerous: Maternal Bodies in Cyber(cultural)space Candidate: Anitra Goriss-Hunter | 2010 |
| PhD | On the Brink of the Abyss Candidate: Mary Alison Knights | 2010 |
| Masters | Silent Witnesses: Re-interpreting the Still Life Tradition Candidate: Frances Watson | 2010 |
| Masters | Dark Matter: Reactivating Myth to Visually Express the Existential Experience of 'The Change' Candidate: Janelle Faye Mendham | 2010 |
| Masters | The Book as Metaphor for the Female Self: A Visual Investigation Through the Medium of the Artist's Book Candidate: Leonie Jane Oakes | 2009 |
| PhD | Extracting Meaning from Strangeness: Strategies to Enhance Viewer Engagement with Contemporary Art in the Public Art Museum Candidate: Jane Alexandra Deeth | 2008 |
| Masters | Association, Recognition and Place: Imaging the Landscape in Van Diemen's Land 1804-1854 Candidate: Philip John Hutch | 2008 |
| PhD | The Code and the Message of Naked Charity Calendars Candidate: Pamela Turton-Turner | 2008 |
| Masters | The Space of the Australian City: Representations and Contestation (1990-2005) Candidate: Stuart Peter Solman | 2007 |
| PhD | Platforms for Imagination: Interaction with Minimal Furniture Forms Candidate: Adrian Stanley Read | 2007 |
| Masters | The Referencing of 'Stringed Things' of Belief by Contemporary Artists Candidate: Therese Odile Mulford | 2007 |
| PhD | Resplendent: An Investigation into the Synthesis of Body and Clothing as Sculptural Form Candidate: Irene Margaret Briant | 2007 |
| Masters | Domestic Relations: A Visual Critique of Ornamental Restraint and Difference Candidate: Fiona Marion Joy Lee | 2007 |
| Masters | Materialising Ritual: A Visual Investigation of the Evocative Power of Ritual Objects, Through the Medium of Cloth and Thread Candidate: Rosemary Anne O'Rourke | 2007 |
| PhD | Colour Music: Musical Modelling in James McNeill Whistler's Art Candidate: Arabella Teniswood-Harvey | 2006 |
| PhD | Problems with Nature - Sculptural Installation and the Culture/Nature Paradox Candidate: Ian Francis Bonde | 2006 |
| PhD | The Gendered Newsroom: Embodied Subjectivity in the Changing World of Media Candidate: Louise Caroline North | 2006 |
| Masters | The Beautiful, Durable and Mundane - Exploring Notions of Value in Craft and Design Practice, in the Context of Sustainability Candidate: Richard John Skinner | 2006 |
| PhD | Repetition and Difference: Poetic Invocations of Nature in Visual Art Candidate: Maria Teresa MacDermott | 2005 |
| PhD | Vena Casa: The defloration of Maternity Candidate: Kathryn Faludi-Ball | 2004 |
| PhD | Art as Ecological Communication: An Application of Site-Specific Installation Art to Marine Ecosystem Degradation Candidate: Jane Wintha Quon | 2003 |
| PhD | Critical investigations into authenticity, authorship and veracity within contemporary photomedia Candidate: John James Voss | 2003 |
| PhD | Multiculturalism & Identity: A visual investigation Candidate: Karen Louise Catherine Lunn | 2002 |
| Masters | Shoppinglands Candidate: Anthony John Sullivan | 2000 |
| Masters | An investigation of women's self-portraiture and autobiography that deals with experiences of psychic disintegration Candidate: Morag Mary Ruth Porteous | 2000 |
| Masters | Examining relationships between rescaled visions with urban realities Candidate: Stephen Patrick Hudson | 1999 |
| Masters | Hors d'oeuvres: Ornamental decoration and gender Candidate: Robyn Lesley Daw | 1999 |
| PhD | Truth or Trap Candidate: Grace Duncan Cochrane | 1999 |
| Masters | The Exploration of the Sensory Psychological and Temporal Boundaries of the Body, Through Costume Candidate: Rosemary Joan Claiden | 1997 |
| Masters | An investigation of the mother-son relationship-towards an understanding of their responses, particularly as the child gains maturity and independence Candidate: Gabrielle Louise Falconer | 1997 |