MAPh | The basement lectures | Teaching art history at Prahran, with Norbert Loeffler

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The basement lectures | Teaching art history at Prahran, with Norbert Loeffler

3 May 2025

Greg NEVILLE Tutorial (lecturers and students) 1971

Saturday 3 May

2 pm - 3 pm

In 1975 Norbert Loeffler was employed to create and teach art history and theory in the photography department Prahan in answer to student demand. Loeffler responded with lectures on photography in the evolution of art specific to their program.

Join Norbert Loeffler to reflect on teaching the history and theory of photography at Prahan College in 1970s. Loeffler will look at the events, artists and books that shaped the decade, internationally and within Australia, and the new photographic galleries in Melbourne and Sydney.

Free event

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About Norbert Loeffler...

Norbert Loeffler is Senior Lecturer in Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University. He has been teaching art history and theory for close to five decades, beginning at Prahran College. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he travelled to the major art centres in the United States and Europe and bought this knowledge back to Melbourne with him to the students of Prahran.

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