Elisa deCourcy
Biographic Data
| ID | 5084327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisa deCourcy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisa |
| FAMILY NAME | deCourcy |
| SIGNATURE | DECOURCY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4802-0097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Salt and the National Imaginary
This article looks at how Gandhi used the Dandi Salt Satyagraha as a site for imagining anti-colonial nationalism. We focus on the visual dimensions of the Salt March and the divergent ways in which it was reported in the illustrated press in 1930. Developing Sumathi Ramaswamy’s idea of the ‘ambulatory aesthetic’ (2020), we highlight how Gandhi created a personified protest. Moreover, he chose salt as a talismanic object, ubiquitous both temporal…
Beyond Sentimentality
This article investigates the first decade and a half of photographic practice in the Australian colonies from the perspective of family participation in the portrait marketplace. The article argues that this period has largely been narrated around determining the point of photography's arrival. This approach risks underplaying both the significant innovation and entrepreneurship that defined early photographic practice in this part of the Britis…
Photography's Materialities
Photography's Materialities is a significant publication, bringing together scholars working in discrete fields of photographic analysis as well as researchers outside art history and media disciplines who draw on photographic sources. The diverse chapters are concerned with photographs' engagement with the broader worlds of their creation and consumption. To this end, Bruno Latour's "actor-network theory," which considers technologies' activated…
Animating the hand of the scientist
The Australian Museum hosted a weekly program of public lantern lectures for over two decades at the beginning of the twentieth century. The slides from these lectures were based on photographs and illustrations made during the empirical pursuit of fieldwork and professional scientific enquiry, and remain intact and catalogue as a complete set in the Museum to this day. This Archive Feature examines women’s work in applying colour, to exacting st…
Mapping with a Car and a Camera
The view of a track-riven sandy terrain, dotted with the silhouettes of \ntwo cars and the remnants of a camp, was taken by British military \nengineer cum desert explorer, Ralph Bagnold during 1929 (Figure 1). The \ntread of the tyres arches violently across the fore and mid-ground, cutting \nthrough the furrows left in the sand by the wind and training the eye \nupward toward the horizon. The movement of the eye, in looking, \nmimics the motion…
Heritage in the Limelight, a Collection in Progress
Once they are formed, the digital collections of cultural and collecting institutions do not exist in splendid isolation. As well as being aggregated data sets, digital heritage collections are also links to tangible objects and specific historical experiences. Digital collections may allow users to find the actual analogue objects from which they were derived, they may allow users to understand a particular historical experience (or a simulation…
The Dreadnought Hoax portrait as an affront to the Edwardian age
In February of 1910, an early incarnation of the now notorious Bloomsbury group of London intellectuals hoodwinked the British Admiralty and the crew of the Dreadnought battleship into thinking they were an Abyssinian royal delegation. Their minstrel-esque disguises afforded them an official reception on the ship and caused heated controversy when, days later, the troupe was exposed as imposters. This article examines the prank from the point of …
Heritage in the Limelight, a Collection in Progress
Once they are formed, the digital collections of cultural and collecting institutions do not exist in splendid isolation. As well as being aggregated data sets, digital heritage collections are also links to tangible objects and specific historical experiences. Digital collections may allow users to find the actual analogue objects from which they were derived, they may allow users to understand a particular historical experience (or a simulation…
The Dreadnought Hoax portrait as an affront to the Edwardian age
In February of 1910, an early incarnation of the now notorious Bloomsbury group of London intellectuals hoodwinked the British Admiralty and the crew of the Dreadnought battleship into thinking they were an Abyssinian royal delegation. Their minstrel-esque disguises afforded them an official reception on the ship and caused heated controversy when, days later, the troupe was exposed as imposters. This article examines the prank from the point of …
Mapping with a Car and a Camera
The view of a track-riven sandy terrain, dotted with the silhouettes of \ntwo cars and the remnants of a camp, was taken by British military \nengineer cum desert explorer, Ralph Bagnold during 1929 (Figure 1). The \ntread of the tyres arches violently across the fore and mid-ground, cutting \nthrough the furrows left in the sand by the wind and training the eye \nupward toward the horizon. The movement of the eye, in looking, \nmimics the motion…
Heritage in the Limelight, a Collection in Progress
Once they are formed, the digital collections of cultural and collecting institutions do not exist in splendid isolation. As well as being aggregated data sets, digital heritage collections are also links to tangible objects and specific historical experiences. Digital collections may allow users to find the actual analogue objects from which they were derived, they may allow users to understand a particular historical experience (or a simulation…
Animating the hand of the scientist
The Australian Museum hosted a weekly program of public lantern lectures for over two decades at the beginning of the twentieth century. The slides from these lectures were based on photographs and illustrations made during the empirical pursuit of fieldwork and professional scientific enquiry, and remain intact and catalogue as a complete set in the Museum to this day. This Archive Feature examines women’s work in applying colour, to exacting st…
Beyond Sentimentality
This article investigates the first decade and a half of photographic practice in the Australian colonies from the perspective of family participation in the portrait marketplace. The article argues that this period has largely been narrated around determining the point of photography's arrival. This approach risks underplaying both the significant innovation and entrepreneurship that defined early photographic practice in this part of the Britis…
Photography's Materialities
Photography's Materialities is a significant publication, bringing together scholars working in discrete fields of photographic analysis as well as researchers outside art history and media disciplines who draw on photographic sources. The diverse chapters are concerned with photographs' engagement with the broader worlds of their creation and consumption. To this end, Bruno Latour's "actor-network theory," which considers technologies' activated…
Salt and the National Imaginary
This article looks at how Gandhi used the Dandi Salt Satyagraha as a site for imagining anti-colonial nationalism. We focus on the visual dimensions of the Salt March and the divergent ways in which it was reported in the illustrated press in 1930. Developing Sumathi Ramaswamy’s idea of the ‘ambulatory aesthetic’ (2020), we highlight how Gandhi created a personified protest. Moreover, he chose salt as a talismanic object, ubiquitous both temporal…
Art (7 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Australian History and Society (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)