Overview
Background
I completed my MA and PhD in Art History at University College London in 2012, and moved to Australia in 2015 to take up my position at UQ. I am an art historian with expertise in the history of photography, artists’ cinema and video. I have written widely on modern and contemporary art and his articles have appeared in Oxford Art Journal, Third Text, Afterall, Philosophy of Photography, Photography and Culture. I am also the author of Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Documentary (2015). I am in favour of a broader approach to image culture, one which crosses traditional boundaries between disciplines such as art history, media studies, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies. My research interests are contemporary artists’ use of images for the production of history and memory, and the aesthetics and politics of documentary. I am interested in the history of Australian photography and the role that lens-based images and visual culture have played in advancing social and environmental justice movements in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
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Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University College London
Research interests
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History and Theory of Photography, Visual Culture, Modern and Contemporary Art
Research impacts
Citation Counts According to Google Scholar my book Documents of Utopia has been quoted 55 times since its publication. My metrics:
H-Index: 5
Hi-Index: 5
Total Citations: 138
Standing of Publishers
MIT Press (Documents of Contemporary Art Series): MIT Press is one of the leading academic presses in the field of art and visual culture.
Columbia University Press is one of the top academic presses in the field of the arts and humanities.
Routledge is one of the top publishers in the field of photography studies, publishing some of the most utilized textbooks in the discipline.
History of Photography is ranked Q2 by SCImago (between top 50% and top 25%).
Journal of Australian Studies is ranked Qby SCImago (between top 50% and top 25%).
Photography and Culture is ranked Q2 by SCImago (between top 50% and top 25%).
Oxford Art Journal is the leading journal in the field of art history. It has a H-index of 13. It was ranked A in ERA 2010.
Third Text was ranked Q1 (top 25%) in the SCImago Visual and Performing Arts subject category for 2011 through to 2013 and Q2 (between top 50% and top 25%) from 2014 to the present. It has a H-index of 14. It was ranked A in ERA 2010.
Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art: the journal’s editorial board includes some leading international scholars from the University of Chicago, University of Oxford, and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Philosophy of Photography is ranked 15th among the top 20 journals in Google Scholar’s Visual Art subject category (accessed: 29/2/16)
Afterall is published by Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and the Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago, in association with the University of Chicago Press. It has a h5-index of 4 and h5-median score of 5.
Art In America, Frieze, Camera Austria, Burlington Magazine are very influential art magazines with a worldwide circulation of up to 75,000 printed copies.
Selected Reviews of Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Documentary
“Drawing on a dazzling array of sources, the book offers a clear and sophisticated argument that a desire to recover the past can also be one to rethink the future” — As Paul Wilson, Associate Professor of Art History, Ithaca College, New York.
Selected Reviews of Work: Documents of Contemporary Art
“A truly brilliant anthology that could function as a textbook for students interested in understanding this major issue in contemporary art debates.” — Angela Dimitrakaki,
Professor, University of Edinburgh.
Works
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2013
Journal Article
Capitalism as Creative Destruction: The Representation of the Economic Crisis in Hito Steyerl’s In Free Fall
Magagnoli, Paolo (2013). Capitalism as Creative Destruction: The Representation of the Economic Crisis in Hito Steyerl’s In Free Fall. Third Text, 27 (6), 723-734. doi: 10.1080/09528822.2013.857899
2012
Journal Article
Moulène, Rancière and 24 Objets de Grève: Productive Ambivalence or Reifying Opacity?
Magagnoli, Paolo (2012). Moulène, Rancière and 24 Objets de Grève: Productive Ambivalence or Reifying Opacity?. Philosophy of Photography, 3 (1), 155-171. doi: 10.1386/pop.3.1.155_1
2012
Journal Article
"European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory and Politics", Ewa Mazierska
Magagnoli, Paolo (2012). "European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory and Politics", Ewa Mazierska. Transnational Cinemas, 3 (2), 239-241. doi: 10.1386/trac.3.2.231_5
2012
Journal Article
Between Mimetic Exacerbation and Abstraction: Images of Atrocities in Contemporary Art
Magagnoli, Paolo (2012). Between Mimetic Exacerbation and Abstraction: Images of Atrocities in Contemporary Art. Akademisk Kvarter, 5, 89-100.
2012
Journal Article
Spectres, Sven Augustijnen (2011). Belgium: Auguste Orts Production
Magagnoli, Paolo (2012). Spectres, Sven Augustijnen (2011). Belgium: Auguste Orts Production. Transnational Cinemas, 3 (1), 129-131. doi: 10.1386/trac.3.1.129_5
2012
Journal Article
The pull of violence: Paul Chan's trilogy of war
Magagnoli, Paolo (2012). The pull of violence: Paul Chan's trilogy of war. Afterall, 1 (31), 26-35. doi: 10.1086/668920
2011
Journal Article
A method in madness: historical truth in Walid Raad's Hostage: The Bachar Tapes
Magagnoli, Paolo (2011). A method in madness: historical truth in Walid Raad's Hostage: The Bachar Tapes. Third Text, 25 (3), 311-324. doi: 10.1080/09528822.2011.573316
2011
Journal Article
Critical nostalgia in the art of Joachim Koester
Magagnoli, Paolo (2011). Critical nostalgia in the art of Joachim Koester. Oxford Art Journal, 34 (1), 97-121. doi: 10.1093/oxartj/kcr012
2010
Journal Article
Documentary fictions: new concepts of truth and representation in the works of Anri Sala and Hito Steyerl
Magagnoli, Paolo (2010). Documentary fictions: new concepts of truth and representation in the works of Anri Sala and Hito Steyerl. Object: Graduate Research and Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, 1 (12), 41-59.
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
WE CALL YOU! Sisters! Mothers! Workers!: Labour, Sex Work and Social Reproduction in Contemporary Art
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Andrea Bubenik
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Doctor Philosophy
The Art and Neuroscience of Traditional Chinese Painting
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Andrea Bubenik
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Doctor Philosophy
Dirt: Dialogues with Earth Matter
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Amelia Barikin
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Between Communism and Fascism: The Entangled History of Political Photomontage in Italy, 1925-45
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Amelia Barikin
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Refocusing on the Medium: The Rise of East Asia Video Art
Associate Advisor
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2017
Master Philosophy
Drones and Night Vision: Militarised Technology in Paintings by George Gittoes and Jon Cattapan
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Amelia Barikin
Media
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