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Chip Murray Art History Summary

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Phip Murray’s art history writing, through which her lecture manifests, highlights a key concern for the advocacy of an early settler, Marcus Clarke’s, writing. In speaking through his work, she begins to deconstruct her approach in analysing art history, or more specifically art history writing.

Unassuming, Murray eases the audience into the content of the lecture. She begins with general interests sited across her writing. Enthused by the specificity of a place, culture and society at a point in time, she unpacks how she translates a history to an audience who have experienced a society and culture that is dissimilar in its respective displacement of time. Murray points to the use of ‘texture’ in her writing as a gesture used to the forge authenticity of a place in history. To the audience, it conveys an understanding that is closer to one of experience than scholarly. To Murray, ‘texture’ exposes readers to the voice and words, extracted from and specific to a place and society in an attempt to guide a nuanced understanding at that point in history. An accent that has evolved over time or specific to a class, a quote, an object or words that were common place, now seldom heard of, are a powerful tool in Murray’s writing to communicate what otherwise cannot be expressed. These moments, extracted from history, are inevitably experienced in the research of an art history writer. For the purpose of the reader, Murray intends to carry through key moments as what she describes ‘capsules’ of history in her writing. …show more content…

Usually moving through a consecutive unfolding of thoughts or events, she locates a point in history for her audience methodically. This is consistent with the structure of her verbal presentation, ensuring the audience is well informed at each turn in the

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