- Room 1a, Roland Levinsky Building, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
- +44 1752 585043
- mary.costello@plymouth.ac.uk
Profiles
Ms Mary Costello
Peninsula Arts Exhibition Co-ordinator
The Arts Institute (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
Exhibitions Co-ordinator, The Arts Institute
Associate Lecturer, Art History and Anthropology
Qualifications
BA (Hons) Art History, University of Plymouth
MRes Art History (Distinction), University of Plymouth
Professional membership
Association of Art Historians
Teaching interests
UoP Modules I have taught:
ARHI 113/125: Introduction to Art History
ARHI 114: Continuity and Change
ARHI 123: Museum Fieldwork (I)
ARHI 126/407: Late 19th-Century French Art / Modernity and Modernisms
ANTH 406: Humans, Art, Design & Objects
ARHI 412: Image of the Artist
ARHI 217/512/617: Art and Gender
ARHI 230/330: European Art 1750-1800
ARHI 232/335/504/611: The Interdisciplinary City
ARHI 237/341: Collecting and Exhibiting Cultures in the 19th and 20th Centuries
ARHI 306: Dissertation 2
ARHI 315: Theories and Methods
ARHI 510/612: Art After 1950
Research interests
Viennese Modernism, the reception of non-Western culture in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Museums and Ethnography, Curating.
Grants & contracts
AHRC funding for MRes: 2008-2009
AHRC funding for PhD: 2009-2011
Books
'Artist Biographies' in Blackshaw, G (ed.), Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900, London: National Gallery Company in association with Yale University Press, 2013
'Adolf Loos’s Kärntner Bar: Reception, Reinvention, Reproduction', in Ashby, C., T. Gronberg and S. Shaw-Miller (eds), The Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle Culture, London: Berghahn Books, 2013, pp.138-157
Reports & invited lectures
Conference Paper: 'An alternative to the café: the Loos Bar (1908) and its reproduction in Trinity College, Dublin (1986)', at The Viennese Café as an Urban Site of Cultural Exchange, V&A and RCA, 17-18 October 2008
http://viennacafe.rca.ac.uk/conference.html
Lecture: 'Re-imagining the American Bar', RIBA, 29 March 2011
Other academic activities
Exhibitions Co-ordinator, The Levinsky Gallery (full time) and Associate Lecturer (Art History and Anthropology) part time
Links
THE VIENNESE CAFÉ AND FIN-DE-SIÈCLE CULTURE , Berghahn Books