Dr Luke Morgan

Position title

• Lecturer, Theory of Art & Design

Qualifications

• PhD Melb, MA (First Class Hons.) Auck

Statement

Luke Morgan is an art historian who specialises in the history and theory of the spatial and three-dimensional arts, especially landscape architecture, architecture, sculpture and fountain design. The University of Pennsylvania Press published his book on the French architect and polymath Salomon de Caus in 2007. Luke has also written refereed articles and essays for scholarly journals, books and exhibition catalogues on many other topics and periods ranging from Italian Baroque painting to modern and contemporary art and design.

Luke speaks regularly at international and national conferences, and is co-chair of the Renaissance session of the 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA) to be held in Melbourne in 2008.

He is on the editorial board of Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes and is an editorial advisor and frequent contributor to the Australian Book Review. In 2006 he co-edited the annual 'Art ' of the ABR.

Research/Professional activities

Publications

Recent Books
Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design, Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.

Recent Book Chapters
'Design: From Villeggiatura to Voyage,' in The History of Gardens in the Renaissance, ed. Elisabeth Hyde, vol. 3 of A Cultural History of Gardens, eds. John Dixon Hunt and Michael Leslie. 6 vols. Oxford: Berg, forthcoming 2009.

'Meaning: The Legibility of Landscape,' in The History of Gardens in the Renaissance, ed. Elisabeth Hyde, vol. 3 of A Cultural History of Gardens, eds. John Dixon Hunt and Michael Leslie. 6 vols. Oxford: Berg, forthcoming 2009.

'Modern Australian Fountain Design', in Modern Times: The Untold Story of Modernism in Australia 1917-67, eds. Ann Stephen, Andrew McNamara and Philip Goad. Sydney: Powerhouse Publishing and Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, forthcoming 2008.

'Guercino's Et in Arcadia Ego and Eighteenth-Century Landscape', The Italians in Australia: Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art, ed. David R. Marshall. Florence: Centro Di, 2004, pp. 191-96.

Recent Essays and Articles
'Early Modern Edens: The Landscape and Language of Paradise,'Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 27, no. 2 (April-June 2007), pp. 142-48.

'The Early Modern Trompe l'oeil Garden', Garden History, vol. 34, no. 1, June 2006, pp. 286-93.

'Australian Art Criticism and its Discontents', The LaTrobe University Essay, Australian Book Review, no. 279, March 2006, pp. 9-14.

'Landscape Design in England circa 1610: The Contribution of Salomon de Caus', Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, vol. 23, no. 1, 2003 Jan/Mar., pp.1-21.

'Killeen's Sophistry: Fact and Fiction in Book of the Hook and Measuring Tools', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol. 2. no. 2, 2001, pp.111-19.

Recent Catalogue Essays
'The Baroque Garden,' in International Baroque, eds. Nigel Llewellyn and Michael Snodin. London: V & A Publishing, 2009.

'Sighing over ruins,' Catalogue essay for Stephen Benwell: Recent Works, Richmond: Niagara Publishing, 2007.

'The cast iron logic of paint' Ned Kelly's modernist mask', Catalogue essay for Unmasked: Sidney Nolan and Ned Kelly, 1950-1990. Melbourne: Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2006, pp. 49-55.

'Real Matter', Catalogue essay for Dark Matter. Melbourne: Monash University Faculty of Art & Design Gallery, 2006, n.p.

'Time, Space and the Commonplace', Catalogue Essay for The Plot Thickens: Narratives in Australian Art. Melbourne: Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia, 2004.

Reviews
Luke regularly contributes reviews to Australian Book Review and other journals and magazines.

Recent Conference Papers and Invited Lectures
'The Fountain as Folly'
Folly, 2007.
British Comparative Literature Association National Conference
Goldsmith's College, London

'The Legibility of Landscape: Pliny the Younger's villa gardens and the Hortus Palatinus'
Past Perfected: Antiquity and its Reinventions, 2006
A conference organised by the National Committee for the History of Art. Hosted by the J. Paul Getty Trust; The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the University of Southern California, 2006.

'The Early Modern Trompe-l Garden'
31st International Congress of the History of Art: Sites and Territories of Art History, 2004
Montreal

'Early Modern Edens: The Landscape and Language of Paradise'
Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, 2002
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

'Mutability and Loss: Guercino's Et in Arcadia Ego and Eighteenth-Century Landscape Design'
Symposium: The Italians. Three Centuries of Italian Art, 2002
School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology, University of Melbourne

'Salomon de Caus's English Period: 1610-1613
Seminaire: Institutions, catégories et disciplines du savoir dans l'Europe de la Renaissance, 2001
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris

'Ghosts in the Machine: The Interpretation of Salomon de Caus's Landscape Architecture'
Department of Art and Architecture Research Seminar, 2001
The University of Cambridge, Cambridge

'Mondrian's Classicism'
Seminar series, 2001
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Recent Grants and Awards
Faculty of Art and Design Early Career Researcher Award, Monash University (2007)

Bill Kent Prato Research Fellowship, Monash Centre, Prato (2007)

Australian Academy of the Humanities Publication Grant (2005)
Awarded for: Luke Morgan, Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design, Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

Harold Wright Scholarship and the Sarah and William Holmes Scholarship (2004)
British Museum, London

Current Research
Luke's current research projects include a book on theoretical issues in the experience and interpretation of historical and contemporary landscape architecture, the working title of which is Superabundance, and a book on the history of fountain design. He is also guest-editing and contributing an essay to a special issue of Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes on the work of Isaac de Caus.

Other

• Co-Chair of the session 'Hybrid Renaissances'
  32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art: Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, Convergence, 2008
  The University of Melbourne, 2008
• Editorial Advisor (Art), Australian Book Review
• Editorial Board Member, Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes