Elizabeth Rankin
{{Short description|South African emeritus professor of art history in New Zealand}}
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Elizabeth Deane Rankin is a South African–New Zealand fine arts academic, and is an emeritus professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in neglected South African artists, and printmaking and sculpture.
Academic career
Rankin completed a PhD titled Englishmen on the Acropolis: an historiography of the Parthenon, c. 1750-1850 at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1978. It was the first PhD in art history awarded by the university.{{Cite thesis |title=Englishmen on the Acropolis: an historiography of the Parthenon, c. 1750-1850 |last=Rankin |first=Elizabeth Deane |type=PhD thesis |publisher=University of Witwatersrand |url=https://wits.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/document?id=FETCH-wits_catalog_b116161312 |date=1978}} Rankin was appointed as Chair of the History of Art at Witwatersrand in 1982, and later served three years as Dean of Arts.
Rankin was Chair of the South African Association of Art Historians starting in 1985.{{Cite web |title=Academic profile: Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Rankin |url=https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/e-rankin/about |access-date=2024-09-15 |website=profiles.auckland.ac.nz}}
Rankin joined the faculty of the University of Auckland in 1998 as professor of art history. She was head of the department, and chair of the exhibitions committee for the university's Gus Fisher Gallery. Rankin's research focuses on neglected South African artists, and sculpture and print-making.{{Cite web |title=The pressure of sunlight falling, Edited by Kriselle Baker and Elizabeth Rankin |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/press/books/authors/elizabeth-rankin/fiona-pardington |access-date=16 Sep 2024 |website=Otago University Press}} Rankin published a history of Rorke's Drift printmakers with Philippa Hobbs in 2003. Rankin has written a biography of South African artist Peter Clarke, published in 2012, along with retrospective exhibitions at the South African National Gallery in Cape Town, in collaboration with Hobbs, and in Johannesburg.{{Cite journal |last=Van Robbroeck |first=Lize |date=January 2012 |title=Listening to distant thunder: The art of Peter Clarke |url=https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0038-23532012000300004 |journal=South African Journal of Science |volume=108 |issue=5–6 |pages=08–09 |issn=0038-2353}} Rankin has also written about photographer Fiona Pardington, and artist Neil Pardington.
In 2012 Rankin was a visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, where she worked with Prof. Dr. Rolf Schneider on the design of the frieze of the Voortrekker Monument.{{Cite web |title=Contact page |url=https://www.cas.lmu.de/en/people-at-cas/details/elizabeth-rankin-180f73ca.html |access-date=2024-09-14 |website=www.cas.lmu.de |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=DFG - GEPRIS - From memory to marble: the frieze of the Voortrekker Monument at Pretoria |url=https://gepris-extern.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/254347259?language=en |access-date=2024-09-14 |website=gepris-extern.dfg.de}} Rankin retired in 2016 and was appointed Professor Emeritus at Auckland. One of her notable doctoral students is academic and author Ngarino Ellis.{{Cite thesis |title=A Whakapapa of Tradition : Iwirakau Carving 1830 to 1930 |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111963382 |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland |date=2012-01-01 |first=Ngarino |last=Ellis |access-date=22 January 2024 |archive-date=31 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131203553/https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111963382 |url-status=live}}
Selected works
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= Books =
- {{Cite book |last1=Baker |first1=Kriselle |title=Neil Pardington: The Order of Things |last2=Rankin |first2=Elizabeth |publisher=Baker + Douglas |year=2015}}
- {{Cite book|title=Listening to distant thunder: The art of Peter Clarke|year= 2014|publisher=Fernwood|last1=Hobbs|first1=Philippa|last2=Rankin|first2=Elizabeth|author-link=Philippa Hobbs}}
- {{Cite book |last=Rankin |first=Elizabeth |title=Fiona Pardington: the pressure of sunlight falling |publisher=Otago University Press |year=2011 |editor-last=Baker |editor-first=Kriselle }}
- {{Cite book |last1=Rankin |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Hobbs|first2=Phillippa|author2-link=Philippa Hobbs|title=Rorke's Drift: Empowering prints |publisher=Double Storey |year=2003}}
- {{Cite book|title=Images of metal: Post-war sculptures and assemblages in South Africa|year= 1994|publisher=Witwatersrand University Press|last=Rankin|first=Elizabeth}}
- {{Cite book|title=Images of wood: Aspects of the history of sculpture in 20th-century South Africa|publisher= Johannesburg Art Gallery|year=1989|last1=Rankin|first1=Elizabeth| last2=Dell|first2=E|last3=Meintjes|first3=J}}
- {{Cite book|last1=Hobbs|first1=Philippa|author-link=Philippa Hobbs|last2=Rankin|first2=Elizabeth| year=1997|title=Printmaking in a Transforming South Africa|publisher= David Philip Publishers|isbn=0-86486334-9}}
= Other works =
- {{CiteQ|Q58174768}}
- {{CiteQ|Q57095265}}
- {{CiteQ|Q130300740}}
- {{CiteQ|Q130300763}}
- {{CiteQ|Q130300820|doi-access=free}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdkbKQuA56o Postcolonial Perceptions: Imagining New Zealand History], 2021 seminar for University of Witwatersrand
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