Dr. Gemma Blackshaw

Articles

'Rediscovering Anton Romako', Austrian Studies 16 (2009)
'The Pathological Body: Modernist Strategising in Egon Schiele's Self-Portraiture', Oxford Art Journal (2007), 377-401
'The Jewish Christ: problems of self-presentation and socio-cultural assimilation in Richard Gerstl’s self-portraiture', Oxford Art Journal (2006), 25-51
'Breaking the Mould?', review of Claude Cernuschi’s Re/Casting Kokoschka: Ethics and Aesthetics, Epistemology and Politics in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna for Art History, 27:2 April 2004, pp. 335-40.
'The eye of God?', review of exhibition catalogue, Oskar Kokoschka: Early Portraits from Vienna and Berlin 1909-1914 for Art History, 26:1

Gemma Blackshaw and Leslie Topp, eds., Madness and Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900, Lund Humphries, 2009
Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber, eds., Journeys into Madness – planned volume of essays

Leslie Topp and Gemma Blackshaw, 'Scrutinised Bodies and Lunatic Utopias: Mental illness, psychiatry and the visual arts in Vienna, 1898–1914' in Blackshaw and Topp, eds, Madness and Modernity, 14-37.
'"Mad" Modernists: Imaging mental illness in Viennese portraits' in Blackshaw and Topp, eds, Madness and Modernity, 46-65.
'Gustav Jagerspacher, Portrait of Peter Altenberg, 1909' in Blackshaw and Topp, eds, Madness and Modernity, 66-75

'Vienna's van Gogh? The early reception of Oskar Kokoschka', College Art Association, Los Angeles, 25-28 Feb 2009
'Homo-Social Bonding? Egon Schiele and his early collectors' at 'Europa! Europa?' conference, Ghent University, Belgium, 29-31 May 2008.
'The re-discovery of Anton Romako: pre-modernist portraiture?' at 'From the Ausgleich to the Jahrhundertwende:Vienna 1867-1890 - pre-modernism and change' conference, St. Hilda's College Oxford, 2-4 April 2008.
organised, with Sabine Wieber, the conference 'Journeys into Madness: Representing Mental Illness in the Arts and Sciences, 1850-1930,' funded by the Wellcome Trust, the British Academy and the University of Plymouth, Wellcome Collection, London, October 2007.
'Pathological Portraits: Kokoschka's Reception at the Hagenbund, Vienna, 1911', Journeys into Madness conference, Wellcome Collection, London, October 2007