The Californian Bungalow in Australia

lecture "The Californian Bungalow in Australia,"

Wednesday 10 March, 6.30pm in Lecture Theatre 12B50 at the University of Canberra.

Dr Erika Esau, a Visiting Fellow in Art History in the School of  Cultural Inquiry, ANU,  and for many years a lecturer in Art History at the ANU, is visiting Australia inconjunction with her forthcoming book 'Images of the Pacific Rim: Australia and California, 1850-1935' which is being published by Power Publications, University of Sydney in August 2010.


Bio:
Erika Esau was born and raised in California.  She studied in Vienna and Germany, having a Fulbright Scholarship to Darmstadt, Germany, in 1973. She received a PhD in Art History from Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, in 1985.  She lectured in modern art history and was Curator of the Art Collection at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, where she wrote a catalogue of the LaVera Pohl Collection of German Expressionist Art.

In 1990 she was appointed Lecturer in Art History at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, where she taught modern art history, the history of Australian art, and the history of photography.

In 1998 she was co-author of the Blue Guide Australia (London:  A & C Black) , a cultural tour guide to the entire country.  She now resides in Pasadena, California, where she has been a Fellow at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, and recently wrote the essay for E.O. Hoppe's Australia (W.W. Norton 2007). She has just completed a book, Images of the Pacific Rim:  Australia and California, 1850-1935 (Power Publications, Sydney, forthcoming 2010) on the aesthetic connections between Australia and the American West.  She also works presently as librarian at the Rifkind Center of German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and as Archivist for the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles.

The lecture is jointly sponsored by University of Canberra  and Australian National University.

Colleagues, students and friends are warmly invited to attend.

Enquiries:

Professor Sasha Grishin, AM, FAHA
The Sir William Dobell Professor of Art History
Head, Art History, Building 14
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200