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Dr Paolo Magagnoli
Dr

Paolo Magagnoli

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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.

Availability

Dr Paolo Magagnoli is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University College London

Research interests

  • 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

Search Professor Paolo Magagnoli’s works on UQ eSpace

29 works between 2010 and 2025

21 - 29 of 29 works

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

Capitalism as Creative Destruction: The Representation of the Economic Crisis in Hito Steyerl’s In Free Fall

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

Moulène, Rancière and 24 Objets de Grève: Productive Ambivalence or Reifying Opacity?

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

"European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory and Politics", Ewa Mazierska

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.

Between Mimetic Exacerbation and Abstraction: Images of Atrocities in Contemporary Art

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

Spectres, Sven Augustijnen (2011). Belgium: Auguste Orts Production

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

The pull of violence: Paul Chan's trilogy of war

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

A method in madness: historical truth in Walid Raad's Hostage: The Bachar Tapes

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

Critical nostalgia in the art of Joachim Koester

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.

Documentary fictions: new concepts of truth and representation in the works of Anri Sala and Hito Steyerl

Funding

Past funding

  • 2016
    Chinese contemporary art and the politics of ecology
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant

Supervision

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Supervision history

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