Luke White
Lecturer: History of Art and Design
Department: School of Arts and Education
Contact
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 8411 5021
- E-mail: L.White@mdx.ac.uk
Biography
Areas of interest include: contemporary art and its intersections with popular and mass culture: public art and urban space: eighteenth-century British art and thought, especially theories of the sublime.
I am currently writing a PhD which examines the work of Damien Hirst as a case where the legacies of the discourse on the sublime during the eighteenth century, filtered through a history of commodified culture, resurface in the here and now. Recent conference contributions include "Damien Hirst, Colley Cibber and the Bathos of the Commercialised Sublime," at Taste, Vision, Transcendence: Sublimity 1700-1900, University of Sussex, Jan 2007, and "Wounds and Shrieks, Pain and Sympathy: from the Ancient World to the Present, via the Enlightenment," at Corporealities: The Contested Body in 19th and 20th Century Medical Photography and Illustration, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, Apr 2005.
