DrDorota Łuczak
- dorluc@amu.edu.pl
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Al. Niepodległości 4
61-874 Poznań
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Education and work experience
She studied art history at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (MA, 2007) and Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem in Budapest. In 2015, she defended her doctoral dissertation (supervisor: Associate Professor Piotr Juszkiewicz) at the Institute of Art History (Department of History and Theory of Art Studies), AMU in Poznań. In the years 2011-2013, she was a coordinator of postgraduate Art Studies offered at the Institute of Art History, AMU. Since 2015, she has been an assistant professor at the History of Modern and Contemporary Art Research Unit. She is also a lecturer at the University of the Arts in Poznań. Representative of the Office of Support for Persons with Disabilities at the Faculty of Art Studies.
In 2018 she the published book Foto-oko. Wizja fotograficzna w kontekście Zachodniej tradycji wzrokocentryzmu. Teoria i praktyka artystów europejskich i amerykańskich w I połowie XX wieku (The Photo-Eye: The Photographic Vision in the Context of Western Tradition of Occularcentrism, Universitas TAiWPN). She was a research conductor of the research project Polish documentary film about art 1945-1989 2012-2015. Since 2014 she has been working in a research group preparing an anthology and online archive of Polish texts on photography from 1839-1989 (NPRH program, University of the Arts in Poznań). She is the editor of the academic journal Artium Quaestiones (Adam Mickiewicz University.
Research interests
Her research interests include history of photography and history of theory of photography, modern and contemporary art, and visual culture. The subject of her research is the history of photography and the history of photographic theory, modern and contemporary art, and visual culture. In her doctoral dissertation she dealt with the relationship between avant-garde photography in the first half of the 20th century and the occularcentrism of Western culture. Currently, she is working in the research group preparing an anthology and online archive of the Polish texts on photography from the years 1839-1989 (National Programme for the Development of Humanities). In addition, she has begun research on the photographic archive of the Institute of Western Affairs in Poznań. In her most recent publications, she probes the subject of the reproduction of work of art.
Scholarships
Scholarship of the French Government, Paris (Université VIII Saint-Denis), 2009
Scholarship of the De Brzezie Lanckoronski Foundation, Londyn, 2010
Scholarship of the Corbridge Trust, Cambridge (Robinson College), 2010
Scholarship of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, 2012
Teaching experience
At the Institute of Art History, AMU, she conducts courses in the history of modern and contemporary art, history of photography and new media; she also reflects upon historical studies and visual culture. Her problem-centred specialist courses focus on the use of photographic and film medium in the works of avant-garde artists, conceptual turn in photography, and works aimed at the tradition of western occularcentrism. She is also a lecturer at the University of the Arts in Poznań. Since 2022, he has been providing classes on making the visual arts accessible to people with visual disabilitiesIn the academic year 2017/2018, she was Fulbright Foundation’s mentor.
Outreach activities
Numerous critical and popular-science articles published in “Arteon”, “Kwartalnik Fotografia”, or “Czas Kultury”, texts to art catalogues; lectures at the University of the Third Age in Poznań (2006-2008) and various cultural institutions; academic mentor of the photographic workshops for people with intellectual disability (2009)
Membership in academic associations
Stowarzyszenie Historyków Sztuki (Association of Art Historians in Poland)
AICA
Scientific Society of Photography (Poland)
Awards
I Nagroda dydaktyczna Rektora UAM, 2023
The Dettloff Szczęsny Award for the doctoral dissertation: The Photographic Vision in the Context of Western Tradition of Ocularcentrism: The practise and theory of European and American artists in the 1st half of the 20th c., granted by the Association of Art Historians.
Nagroda dydaktyczna Rektora UAM - nagroda zespołowa, 2018
Nagroda naukowa Rektora UAM - nagroda III stopnia, 2019
Teaching Award of the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University, 2018
Research Award of the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz Univeristy, 2019
Selected publications
Polscy fotografowie, krytycy i teoretycy o fotografii 1839-1989, W. Kanicki, D. Łuczak, M. Szymanowicz, Poznań 2023
Foto-oko. Wizja fotograficzna w kontekście Zachodniej tradycji wzrokocentryzmu. Teoria i praktyka artystów europejskich i amerykańskich w I połowie XX wieku, Universitas TAiWPN, Kraków 2018
Wobec materii fotograficznej. O fotogramach Bronisława Schlabsa raz jeszcze, w: Pokaz zamknięty, red. K. Jurecki, Czytelnia Sztuki, Gliwice 2020
On Sewing a Photographic Mateirals as a Sculpting Strategy of Zofia Kulik, w: Zofia Kulik. Methodology, My Love, ed. by. A. Jakubowska, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw 2019
D. Łuczak, F. Lipiński, Dzieło sztuki w polskim dokumentalnym filmie o sztuce 1945-1989, w: Historia sztuki na co dzień, red. J. Pazder, Stowarzyszenie Historyków Sztuki, Poznań 2018, s. 11-24
Fotograficzne marginalia Muzeum Miejskiego/ Photographische Marginalien des Stadtmuseums, w: Szczecińskie awangardy/ Stettiner Avantgarde, red. S. P. Kubiak, Szczecin 2017, s. 135-164
Fotograficzne paradygmaty nieczytelności, „Zeszyty Artystyczne”, 2017, nr 2 (31), s. 109-120
Materialność obrazu fotograficznego/ Materiality of the Photographic Object, w: Marek Piasecki with care, Poznań 2017, s. 47-77.
Ikonologia zdjęć rentgenowskich, „Sztuka i Dokumentacja”, 2016, nr 14, s. 37-45.
Mrużąc oko. Nieostrość obrazu a kwestia widzenia fotograficznego, w: Wielkie i małe historie fotografii, Stowarzyszenie Historyków Sztuki i Instytutu Historii Sztuki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2013, s. 127-136.
Upojenie sztuką. Poznańskie kolekcje fotografii w XXI wieku, „Kronika Miasta Poznania”, 2011, nr 3, s. 357-367.
O widzeniu fotograficznym na marginesie Autoportretu Man Raya, w: Historia sztuki w dobie globalizacji, pod red. A. Jezierskiej, A. Szewczyk, A. Śliwowskiej, Wrocław 2013, s. 173-180.
Fotograficzny gest (s)twórcy, w: Bronisław Schlabs. Krok w nowoczesność, D. Łuczak, M. Wróblewska, Poznań 2012.
Przekraczając medium. Wokół wystawy „Polska fotografia intermedialna lat 80-ych”, w: W stronę miasta kreatywnego. Sztuka Poznania 1986-2011, pod red. W. Makowieckiego, Poznań 2011, s. 146-156.
Schlabs poszukujący, w: Schlabs poszukujący, D. Łuczak, M. Wróblewska, M. Szymanowicz, Poznań 2011.
Sfotografować widzenie. Wokół teorii Raoula Hausmanna, w: Obrazy i obrazowanie w dobie mediów elektronicznych, pod red. V. Sajkiewicz, Katowice 2010, s.58-66.
Wielogłosowość śladu – interpretacja fotochemicznych obrazów Andrzeja Pawłowskiego, „Artium Quaestiones”, 2009, nr XIX, s. 213-242.