Dr Gregory Minissale

PhD (SOAS, London), MA (SOAS, London), MSc (City University), BA (Sussex)

Associate Professor

In: Humanities » Faculty of Arts

Biography

Gregory was born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, and studied art history and Italian at the University of Sussex. He completed his Masters and PhD in art history at the School of African and Oriental Art, University of London on the subject of cross-cultural encounters in art. He has taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design, GA USA and London Metropolitan University.

Research | Current

Art theory
Philosophy of mind
Cognitive and psychological approaches to art

Greg is currently conducting research into matter and contemporary art, using art theory, philosophy, phenomenology and cognitive psychological approaches.

Teaching | Current

ARTHIST 115 Global Art Histories

ARTHIST 204 Contemporary Art and Theory

ARTHIST 231 Framing the Viewer: 20th Century Art

ARTHIST 331 Framing the Viewer: 20th Century Art

ARTHIST 334 Contemporary Art and Theory

ARTHIST 725 Concepts in Contemporary Art

Postgraduate supervision

PhD

Velazquez and Foucault
Time and Contemporary Art [VC’s Best Thesis]
Inter-subjectivity and choreographic practice
Art in the City, the City in Art
The Crisis of the object
Thinking Matter
Bio Art
Irony in Contemporary Indian Art

Sculpture and Heidegger
Art and Representations of AIDS/HIV
Art and Trans Bodies
The Archive and Contemporary NZ Art
Susanna+Bathsheba: The Male Gaze 1250-1650
Feminist Approaches to Digital Art
Historiography and Contemporary Art
Menstruation in art
Urban Art
Sonic Art
Misogynist Responses to Tracey Emin's Art.
Fiona Connor
Cosmography in art
Entomology in art
Dance and Art
Authenticity in Contemporary Art
Neon Art
Peter Greenaway’s Last Supper

Distinctions/Honours

2013 Early Career Teaching Excellence Award.

Areas of expertise

Contemporary art and theory, psychological and phenomenological approaches to art and materiality

Committees/Professional groups/Services

Art History's Representative on the Humanities Research Committee

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Minissale, G. (2018). Global and local multistability in contemporary art. In C. Albu, D. Schuld (Eds.) Perception and agency in shared spaces of contemporary art (pp. 107-117). New York: Routledge.
Minissale, G. (2015). Problem Spaces in the Walters Prize. Reading Room: A Journal of Art and Culture (7), 126-146. Related URL.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/27388
Minissale, G. (2015). Becoming-cyborg. In L. Grabbe, P. Rupert-Kruse, N. Schmitz (Eds.) Cyborgian images: The moving image between apparatus and body (pp. 164-185). Darmstadt: Buchner-Verlag.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/27387
Minissale, G. (2015). The Invisible Within: Dispersing Masculinity in Art. Angelaki : Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 20 (1), 71-83. 10.1080/0969725X.2015.1017378
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/26164
Minissale, G. (2015). Performing the Curator, Curating the Performer: Abramović’s Seven Easy Pieces. In C. Jeffery (Ed.) The Artist as Curator (pp. 131-149). Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL: Intellect.
Minissale, G. (2014). Revealing Freedom: Contemporary New Zealand Art at Auckland Art Gallery. Art New Zealand (149), 50-54. Related URL.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/27389
Minissale, G. (2013). The Psychology of Contemporary Art. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. Pages: 407.
Minissale, G. (2012). Conceptual Art: A Blind Spot for Neuroaesthetics?. Leonardo, 45 (1), 43-48. 10.1162/LEON_a_00324
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/26172