Dr Anita Callaway

Academic Grants and Awards

• John W. Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress, Washington DC, for ‘The Making of American Visual Culture: The Enduring Legacy of Ephemeral Art’ (2003-2004)
• Honourable Mention in the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand / Power Institute book prize, for Visual Ephemera: Theatrical Art in Nineteenth-Century Australia (2001)
• Army History Unit Grant, Australian Department of Defence, for ‘Soldier as Spectacle: The Public Face of the Australian Army’ (2001)
• Faculties Research Grant, Australian National University, for ‘Cross-Cultural Accounting: Reading the Impact of Western Colonisation in Native American Ledger Books and Indigenous Australian Sketch Books’ (2001)
• J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship, for ‘Inventing an Idiomatically Australian Art: Cross-Cultural Exchange between Indigenous and White Australians’ (1999-2000)
• Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, for ‘Visual Images as Both Records and Products of Cultural Contact between Indigenous and White Australians’ (1999-2003)
• Centre for Cross-Cultural Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, Australian National University (1998)
• Australian Research Council large grant (joint chief investigator with Joan Kerr) for Dictionary of Australian Artists stage 2 project (1994-1996)

Research Interests

• Australian visual culture from European contact to mid-twentieth century
• The special role of ephemeral art in fostering and maintaining cultural links between colony and metropole
• Cross-cultural appropriation of indigenous and non-indigenous imagery, especially in Australia and North America
• Nineteenth-century spectacle and performance

Publications

• [Book] Visual Ephemera: Theatrical Art in Nineteenth-Century Australia, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2000, 228 pp
• [Chapter] “Balancing the Books: Indigenous Culture and Ledger-Book Art”, in Selves Crossing Cultures: Autobiography and Globalisation, ed. Rosamund Dalziell, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2002, pp. 115-26
• [Chapter] “A Broad Brush Dipped in Gold: The Expansion of Australian Vision”, in Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia, ed. Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook and Andrew Reeve, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2001, pp. 326-38
• [Chapter] “Bungaree”, in The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, ed. Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2000, pp. 551-52
• [Chapter] “Violet Teague and the Theatre of War”, in Violet Teague 1872–1951, ed. Jane Clark and Felicity Druce, Beagle Press, Roseville (NSW), 1999, pp. 73-81
• [Chapter] “The Temperature’s Rising: Tableaux and Transformations in Australian Culture”, in Past Present: The National Women’s Art Anthology, ed. Joan Kerr and Jo Holder, Craftsman House, North Ryde (NSW), 1999, pp. 76-84
• [Chapter] “Woollahra Reflected: 18th and 19th Century Paintings and Drawings” (with Candice Bruce), in Impressions of Woollahra: Past and Present, ed. Elaine Cassidy et al., Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1988, pp. 1-51
• [Book review] Review of Caroline Jordan, Picturesque Pursuits: Colonial Woman Artists and the Amateur Tradition, for Art and Australia, vol.43, no.4, winter 2006, pp.605-06
• [Article] “Changing the Commonplace to the Vision Splendid: The Poetry of Theatrical Transformations”, Experimenta: Mesh #18, 2005, pp. 16-18
  [Catalogue essay] ‘Antipodean Attitudes: Posing Down Under’, in Strike a Pose, ed. Merryn Gates, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery catalogue, 2004, pp. 3-7
• [Reference book essay] “Australia and New Zealand 1800-1900” and “Australia and New Zealand 1900-2000”, in Atlas of World Art, ed. John Onians, Laurence King Publishing, London, 2003, pp.258-59 and 314-15 (also published by Oxford University Press (USA), 2004; and as DuMonts Weltatlas der Kunst, Dumonts, Cologne, 2004)
• [Article] “Melbourne’s Theatre of War: Art on the Home Front during WW1”, Australian Antique Collector, July-December 1999, pp. 143-46
• [Article] “Mrs Butters Goes to the Ball, Dressed in a ‘Great Nineteenth-Century Printed Work’”, Australian Antique Collector, January-June 1999, pp. 133-35
• [Catalogue essay] ‘Ruby Lind(say)’, in Significant Others: Celebrating 20 Years of Exhibitions at S.H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust (NSW) S.H. Ervin Gallery catalogue, Sydney, 1998
• [Book review] Review of Roger Blackley, Goldie, Auckland Art Gallery catalogue, for Australian Antique Collector, July-December 1998, pp.186-87
• [Editor] Australian Journal of Art, vol. 14, nos. 1-2, 1998-99; and joint editor (with Heather Johnson) vol.13, 1996
• [Catalogue essay] “Out in the Open: Australian Pleinairism and the Heidelberg School (Arthur Streeton, Walter Withers, Girolamo Nerli)”, in Brought to Light: Australian Art 1850-1965 from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection, ed. Lynne Seear and Julie Ewington, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 1998, pp. 70-75
• [Article] ‘Not Afraid of Flying: Fairies and Femocrats’, Artlink, vol. 15, no. 4, summer 1995, pp. 48-49
• [Article] “‘On a Clear Day You Can See Forever’: The Colonial Panorama and the Theatre of Landscape”, Australian Journal of Art, vol. 12, 1994/1995, pp. 96-112
• [Editor] ‘Biographies’ section (500 articles) with Joan Kerr, in Heritage: The National Women’s Art Book, Craftsman House, East Roseville (NSW), 1995, pp. 299-480
• [Reference book biographies] Thirty biographies in Heritage: The National Women’s Art Book, ed. Joan Kerr, Craftsman House, East Roseville (NSW), 1995
• [Reference book essays] Eighteen essays in Heritage: The National Women’s Art Book, ed. Joan Kerr, Craftsman House, East Roseville (NSW), 1995
• [Article] “A City Transformed; or, How Melbourne Made a Spectacle of Itself”, in Imagining the City: Documents, ed. Penny Webb, Melbourne, 1993, pp. 27-36
• [Catalogue] More Discerning Eyes at Hyde Park Barracks (with Joan Kerr), supplementary catalogue to A Discerning Eye: Selections from the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, Australian National Library and Historic Houses Trust of NSW exhibition, Sydney, 1992
• [Reference book essays] Eighteen essays in The Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870, ed. Joan Kerr, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992
• [Article] “Illuminated Melbourne”, The Interior, vol. 1, no. 3-4, February 1992
• [Article] “Dancing in the Dark: Black Corroboree or White Spectacle?” (with Candice Bruce), Australian Journal of Art, no. 9, 1991, pp. 78-104
• [Article] “Colonial Transparencies: Seeing through the City Spectacle”, Transition: A Discourse on Architecture, no. 36/37, 1991, pp. 30-48
• [Article] “Wild Nights and Savage Festivities: White Views of Corroborees” (with Candice Bruce), Art and Australia, vol. 27, no. 2, summer 1989, pp. 269-75
• [Article] “A Right Royal Masquerade”, Art and Australia, vol. 27, no. 1, spring 1989, pp. 74-80
• [Article] “Fred Leist”, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Newsletter, no. 12, 1987
• [Catalogue essays] “The Visiting Artists: 1. The French; 2. The Spanish; 3. The British; 4. The Russians” (with Candice Bruce), in First Views of Australia 1788-1825, ed. Tim McCormick et al., Longueville Press, Chippendale (NSW), 1987, pp. 282-86
• [Biographical essays] “Biographical Notes” (with Candice Bruce and Jane Lennon), in First Views of Australia 1788-1825, ed. Tim McCormick et al., Longueville Press, Chippendale (NSW), 1987, pp. 318-31