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