Art historian Duro to head department

Duro

aul Duro, a distinguished art historian from the Australian National University in Canberra, has been appointed professor of art history and chair of the Department of Art and Art History.

A native of Britain, Duro received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. He has been a faculty member at the Australian National University since 1989, and headed the Department of Art History and Visual Studies in 1997 and 1998. He also has been a visiting fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the university.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Duro received funding for research from the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Australian Research Council, the British Academy, and the British Institute in Paris. His main areas of research involve art institutions of France from 1650 to 1950.

In addition, he participated in the first Summer Institute in Art History and Visual Studies sponsored by the Getty Grant Program at Rochester in 1998.

Author of The Academy and the Limits of Painting in 17th-Century France (1997), Duro also is the editor of The Rhetoric of the Frame: Essays on the Boundaries of the Artwork (1996) and co-author of Essential Art History (1992). He has written more than 40 articles for books, anthologies, journals, and reviews dealing with various aspects of his field. Currently, he is working on Models of Emulation: Rereading Imitation in 19th-Century French Painting, a book dealing with the role of imitation in 19th-century academic and avant-garde discourse.

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