Dr Patricia Allmer
Patricia Allmer is a member of:
A selection of recent research outputs.- Exhibitions
Allmer, P., 2009. Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism (WINNER of: 'Tourism Experience of the Year, 2010' Award, Manchester Tourism Awards), Manchester Art Gallery, Sept. 2009 - Jan. 2010.
- Books
Allmer, P., 2009. René Magritte: Beyond Painting, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Edited Books
Allmer, P. and Roberts, D., 2012. '"Wonderful Things" - Surrealism and Egypt', Dada/Surrealism, University of Iowa, special journal issue (forthcoming).
Allmer, P., Brick, E., Huxley, D., 2012. 'European Nightmares: European Horror Cinema Since 1945', New York: Columbia University Press/Wallflower Press.
Allmer, P. and Sears, J., 2011. 'Re/Reading RE/Search', special journal issue, European Journal of American Culture, Intellect.
Allmer, P., 2009. 'Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism', Munchen, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel.
Allmer, P. and Van Gelder, H., 2007. 'Collective Inventions: Surrealism in Belgium', Leuven University Press.
Allmer, P. and Sears, J., 2007. 'Reproducing Art: Walter Benjamin's "Work of Art" Essay Reconsidered', special journal issue, InterCulture, vol.4, Summer.
Allmer, P., Van Gelder, H., 2005. 'The Forgotten Surrealists: Belgian Surrealism 1924 – 1981', special journal issue, Image [&] Narrative, issue 14, December.
- Book Chapters
Allmer, P., 2012. 'Rene Magritte - La Memoire'. In Critique and Crisis: Art in Europe Since 1945 (exhibition catalogue), Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin (forthcoming).
Allmer, P., 2012. 'Taxidermia – A Hungarian Taste for Horror'. In Allmer, P., Brick, E. Huxley, D. (eds.) European Nightmares: European Horror Cinema Since 1945, New York: Columbia University Press/Wallflower Press.
Allmer, P., 2011. 'Rene Magritte Entries'. In Christoph Grunenberg (eds.) Rene Magritte: From A to Z/ Rene Magritte von A-Z (exhibition catalogue, Tate Liverpool and Albertina, Vienna), Tate Publishing: London; Belser: Stuttgart.
Allmer, P., 2009. 'Of Fallen Angels and Angels of Anarchy'. In Patricia Allmer (eds.) Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism, London: Prestel.
Allmer, P., 2009. 'On Being Touched'. In Carson & Miller (eds.) Scrapbook (the story of things) (artists' book), MMU Special Collections: Manchester.
Allmer, P., 2008. ''Breaking the Surface of the Real': The Discourses of Commodity Capitalism in Clive Barker's Hellraiser Narratives'. In Maria Holmgren Troy and Elisabeth Wennö (eds.) Space, Haunting, Discourse, 1, 14 - 24, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Allmer, P. and Sears, J., 2007. ''Dare You Play On?''. In Jonathan Carson and Rosie Miller (eds.) The Exquisite Fold, artist book, Manchester: Carson and Miller.
Allmer, P., 2007. 'Dial M for Magritte'. In Johan Grimonprez (eds.) Looking for Alfred. The Hitchcock Castings, 208 - 223, Film and Video Umbrella, London.
Allmer, P., 2007. 'Failing to Create – Magritte, Artistry, Art History'. In Sally Bayley and William May (eds.) From Self to Shelf: The Artist Under Construction, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Allmer, P., 2007. 'René Magritte and the Postcard'. In Allmer, P. and Van Gelder, H. (eds.) Collective Inventions: Surrealism in Belgium, pp. 98 - 116, Leuven University Press.
Allmer, P., 2006. '‘Framing the Real: Frames and the Process of Framing in René Magritte’s Œuvre’'. In Walter Bernhart and Werner Wolf (eds.) Framing Borders in Literature and Other Media, 113 - 138, Amsterdam: Rodopi.
- Journal Articles
Allmer, P., 2013. 'Lee Miller – Ombres d’elle-même', Mélusine: cahiers du Centre de recherches sur le surréalisme (Paris III), (forthcoming).
Allmer, P., 2012. 'Apertures onto Egypt – Lee Miller’s Nomadic Surrealism', Dada/Surrealism, (forthcoming).
Allmer, P., 2012. 'Lee Miller's Revenge on Fascist Culture', History of Photography, 36/4.
Allmer, P., 2011. 'Interview with Judy Chicago, part 1', Cassone: The International Online Magazine of Art and Art Books.
Allmer, P., 2011. 'Interview with Judy Chicago, part 2', Cassone: The International Online Magazine of Art and Art Books.
Allmer, P., 2011. 'RE/Searching Angry Women', European Journal of American Culture.
Allmer, P., 2011. 'Relating the Story of Things', Image [&] Narrative.
Allmer, P., 2008. 'La Reproduction Interdite: René Magritte and Forgery', Sexymachinery Issue A: Super Replica, (extract).
Allmer, P., Carson, J., Miller, R. and Sears, J., 2008. 'Your Turn: experiments in narrative and play', The Blue Notebook, 3/1, 25-37.
Allmer, P., 2007. '‘La Reproduction Interdite’ – René Magritte and Forgery’', Papers of Surrealism.
Allmer, P., 2004. '‘“Window Shopping?” – Aesthetics of the Spectacular and Cinéma du Look’', Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies.
Allmer, P., 2003. '‘L’Age d’Or-dinaire: A Voyage through Surrealism’', Art History.
Allmer, P., 2003. '‘“Theorising the Aura”: Benjamin, Photography and Art’', Postscript: A Journal of Graduate Criticism and Theory.
- Presentations
Allmer, P., 2012. 'Remapping Surrealism - Lee Miller's Cartographies', MLA Annual Convention, Seattle, January.
Allmer, P., 2011. 'Lee Miller's Revenge on (Fascist) Culture', Art History Research Seminar, University of Sussex, 2 March.
Allmer, P., 2011. 'Lee Miller: Framing the Ruin/Ruining the Frame', UAAC- AAUC Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, 27-29 October.
Allmer, P., Carson, J. and Miller, R., 2011. 'Playing in the Wunderkammer', Modern and Contemporary Art and the Curiosity Cabinet, Seaton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, 5 February.
Allmer, P., 2011. 'Rene Magritte/Georges Bataille', Tate Liverpool Scholar's Morning, Tate Liverpool, 9 September.
Allmer, P., 2010. , Invited participant in the round-table discussion for the AAH event: 'Don't Ask For the Mona Lisa: Exhibition Collaborations Between Academics and Museums & Art Galleries, University of Leeds, 18 March.
Allmer, P., 2010. 'Lee Miller - The Art of Fixing a Shadow', National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, invited lecture, December 7.
Allmer, P., MacLure, M. and MacRae, C., 2010. 'Offending Items: Children’s Objects as Incursions through the Threshold of the Classroom', AERA 2010 symposium 'Provocations: Encounters between Art and Qualitative Inquiry', Denver, April 30 - May 4.
Allmer, P., 2010. 'Relating the Story of Things', The Story of Things: reading narrative in the visual, (Conference keynote address), Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections, 29 January.
Allmer, P., 2010. 'Women Artists and Surrealism', Invited talk for Oxford Women In Politics Series, University of Oxford, 18 February.
Allmer, P., 2009. 'Beyond Frontiers - Lee Miller's Nomadic Surrealism', Across the Frontiers, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 13 November.
Allmer, P., 2009. 'Curator's Lecture: Angels of Anarchy - Women Artists and Surrealism', Angels of Anarchy Lecture Series, Manchester Art Gallery, 3 October.
Allmer, P., 2007. 'Cracking Surrealism', 5th International Symposium on Surrealism, 'Surrealism Laid Bare: Living in Surrealism', West Dean College, West Dean, Chichester, 4-6 May 2007.
Allmer, P., 2007. 'Fortuitous Encounters: The Crack, the Bride and Her Bachelors', The Flaw/La Faille, Queen’s University, Canada, 24 - 27 May, 2007.
Allmer, P., 2006. ''We Have Such Sights to Show You...': Spaces of Hell in the Hellraiser Films', Space, Haunting, Discourse, Karlstad University, June 2006.
Allmer, P., 2006. 'Magritte and Forgery', guest lecture, University of Leuven, Leuven, February 2006.
Allmer, P., 2006. 'Reframing Magritte', Frames and Framing, SAIT conference, University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), March 2006.
Allmer, P., 2006. 'The Force of Habit - Rene Magritte and Forgery', Research seminar, AHRC Centre for Surrealism and Its Legacies, University of Manchester, April 2006.
Allmer, P., 2005. '‘Photographs of Magritte: From Tableau Vivant to Memento Mori’', Surrealism Laid Bare, Anew: Object-Photo-Film, 4th International Symposium on Surrealism, West Dean College, Chichester, 13 - 15, May 2005.
Allmer, P., 2004. '‘Framing the Real: Frames and the Process of Framing in René Magritte’s Œuvre’', Framing in Literature and Other Media, International Symposium, Universität Graz, Austria, June 2004.
Allmer, P., 2004. '‘Spectacularizing Aesthetics/Aestheticising the Spectacular’', The Spectacle and the Spectacular, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, April 2004.
Allmer, P., 2004. '‘Spectres of Painting: René Magritte and Tradition’', Departmental Research Seminar, Loughborough University, School of Art and Design, January 2004.
Allmer, P., 2004. '‘Traditional Perspectives/Perspectives on Tradition: René Magritte’s Conceptions of the Art Work’s Past, Present and Future’', AAH Annual Conference – Old/New, University of Nottingham, April 2004.
Allmer, P., 2003. '‘The True Art of Painting: René Magritte and the Ends of October’', AAH Annual Conference - ARTiculations, University College London and Birkbeck, April 2003.
Allmer, P., 2001. '‘The Labyrinth as Metaphor in Modern Cinema’', The Underworld 1850 – 2000, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, July 2001.
- Other Outputs
Allmer, P., 2010. 'Pinching A Shadow', Accompanying text for Brass Art's exhibition 'The Non-existence of the Unnamed'.
Allmer, P., 2010. 'The Art of Exuberance', Commissioned essay for John Hyatt's exhibition 'The Free Creation of Beautiful Things: New Work by John Hyatt', Holden Gallery, 26th April - 14th May 2010..