The Australian Art Field: Practices, Policies, Institutions

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Plates
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Australian Art Field – Frictions and Futures
	Art Fields, the Artworld, and Art Worlds
	Outline of the Collection
	Note
	References
Part 1 Framing the Arts
	Introduction
	Chapter 1 The Australian Art Exhibitionary Complex
		The Modern Exhibitionary Complex
		The Contemporary Visual Arts Exhibitionary Complex
		Sydney Modern and Contemporary
		VAECs Australia-wide
		References
	Chapter 2 Mona and the Political-Cultural Economy of Independent Galleries
		Introduction
		The Rise of Contemporary Art, its Collection and Display
		What Difference Does This Make?
		Extending the Exhibitionary Complex Spatially
		Impact on New Localities
		Exchanges Between Private and Public
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	Chapter 3 On the Possibility of Another Australian Art History
		An ‘UnAustralian’ Art History
		The Expatriates
		The Immigrants
		The Indigenous
		A History of the ‘UnAustralian’
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 4 ‘Craftsperson’, ‘Artist’, ‘Designer’: Problematising the ‘Art Versus Commerce’ Divide Within Australian Creative Fields Today
		What’s in a Name? Art, Craft and the Persistence of Boundary Policing
		‘Art’ Versus ‘Craft’: The Unlikely Impact of Neoliberalism on the Fields of Craftmaking
		‘What if Bourdieu were Italian?’ or ‘Bernard Leach versus Bourdieu’: the Reality of Portfolio Careers in Australian Craft Today
		Conclusion: ‘Craft’ for Craft’s Sake—An Identity at Risk?
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 5 Feminist Effects: Australian Visual Artists Past, Present, Future 
		Success and Venice
		‘If You Can’t Measure It You Can’t Improve It’
		Feminist Effects Today
		Future Effects …
		References
	Chapter 6 Australian Working-Class Art Field: Its Making and Unmaking
		Origins of the Field: The ‘Black-and-White’ Art Revolution
		The Avant-Garde and the Politics of Painting
		Communist Art Politics
		Little Magazines and Patronage
		The Value of Conflict
		Left Division Over Autonomy
		The Post-War Radical Nationalist Tradition
		Screening the Working Class From the 1970s
		Conclusion: The Decline of Working-Class Art Fields
		References
	Chapter 7 Liking Australian Art, Liking Australian Culture
		Positioning Australian Art Tastes Socially and Culturally
		The Role of Social Trajectories
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part 2 Governance, Institutions, and the Social
	Introduction
	Chapter 8 Cultural Policy in Australia: Key Themes in the Governance of the Arts
		Introduction
		Preludes to Policy
		Art, Culture and Beyond
		Education and Training
		Economies and Industries
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 9 Experiments with Arts Institutions: The Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation and Frontyard
		How Frontyard and KSCA Began
		Ecologies of Social Engagement
		Grounded Futures
		Organisational Experiments and Pedagogy
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	Chapter 10 Art Education and the Maker Movement: Identity, Wellbeing, Community, and Entrepreneurship
		Introduction
		The Rise of the Maker Movement
		Art Education and Training: Unstable and Shifting Terrain
		Communication Technologies, Art Education, and Agency
		Making, Identity, Wellbeing, Community in Art Education
		Art Education Futures: A New Ecology
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgements
		Note
		References
	Chapter 11 Why We Need to Talk About Race in the Arts, or the Limits of Aspirational Diversity
		Defining Race and Whiteness
		How the Arts Became ‘Post-Multicultural’
		Accounting for the Arts’ ‘Diversity Problem’
		‘Bla(c)k Femmes, Bla(c)k Visions’
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 12 Artist Activism in a Cultural Policy Void
		The Void
		A Parliamentary Portrait of the Arts
		Feral Arts: A National Compact For the Arts
		Arts Front as Process and Practice
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 13 Gaming the Data: The Evaluation of Arts Activities and the Tensions for Public Policy
		Introduction
		The Friction Over Public Impact Evaluation
		The Future of Public Impact Evaluation in the Australian Arts Sector
		The Prospect and Consequences of Metrics
		The Unrealised Benefits of Public Impact Evaluation
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 14 Arguing Value: Attitudes and Activism
		Arguing the Arts
		Political Context
		The Regulatory Environment
		NAVA and Artists’ Rights
		Conclusion
		References
Part 3 Indigenous Art
	Introduction
	Chapter 15 The Work of Art: Hope, Disenchantment, and Indigenous Art in Australia
		Art Value, Art Theory, and Autonomy
		Beyond the National Field
		Art, Money, Market, and Value
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 16 Indigenising the Australian Artworld: National Culture and State Sovereignty
		National Culture and Indigenism
		National Artworlds and Indigeneity: From the Metropole to the Colony
		Australian National Culture: From Settler-Colony to Settler-Nation
		Black National Culture
		Postnational Futures and the Australian Artworld
		Now
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 17 Approaching the Sovereign: From Art Centres to Art Fairs
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		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 18 Indigenous Curatorial Interpellations: Insistence and Refusal
		Reconstituting the Field
		More than Art
		Intangible Cultural Heritage and Invocations of the Ceremonial
		Surfacing Alternative Histories
		Protocols
		Art Historical Reimagining
		Indigenous Futures
		Note
		References
Part 4 Artists’ Voices
	Introduction
	Chapter 19 Speaking of an Unquiet Country
		Notes
	Chapter 20 Testing the Ground : Art and ‘Difficult’ Histories
		Notes
	Chapter 21 In Between
		Notes
	Chapter 22 Cultural Democracy in Action
		Notes
	Chapter 23 Body Disclosures
		Notes
	Chapter 24 Labour and Ritual
		Notes
	Chapter 25 Futile Fighting, Fanciful Folly
		Notes
Index