Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-16 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Journal of Art Historiography |
| Volume | 20 |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2019 |
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Opened eyes on Australian exhibition history : review of Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening our Eyes by Joanna Mendelssohn, Catherine De Lorenzo, Alison Inglis and Catherine Speck (Melbourne: Thames & Hudson, 2018). / Read, Richard.
In: Journal of Art Historiography, Vol. 20, 06.2019, p. 1-16.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Opened eyes on Australian exhibition history
T2 - review of Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening our Eyes by Joanna Mendelssohn, Catherine De Lorenzo, Alison Inglis and Catherine Speck (Melbourne: Thames & Hudson, 2018)
AU - Read, Richard
PY - 2019/6
Y1 - 2019/6
N2 - A review of a compendious volume that traces the history of Australian exhibitions from the middle of the twentieth century to 2018. It examines how its authors place the field of exhibition history in relation to other agencies of influence on Australian culture: government policy, funding agencies, directors’ planning committees, art historians, art critics, and the inventive ways generations of curators responded to a series of artistic movements, indigenous aspirations, the cultures of minorities and successive waves of migrants. It probes possible contradictions in the volume’s presentation of exophoric or endophoric models of cohesion in national exhibitionary culture, compares it with histories of curating of other countries, and speculates upon alternative approaches to artists’ contributions to exhibition history, reasons for unequal achievements in the separate Australian states and the photography of spectating.
AB - A review of a compendious volume that traces the history of Australian exhibitions from the middle of the twentieth century to 2018. It examines how its authors place the field of exhibition history in relation to other agencies of influence on Australian culture: government policy, funding agencies, directors’ planning committees, art historians, art critics, and the inventive ways generations of curators responded to a series of artistic movements, indigenous aspirations, the cultures of minorities and successive waves of migrants. It probes possible contradictions in the volume’s presentation of exophoric or endophoric models of cohesion in national exhibitionary culture, compares it with histories of curating of other countries, and speculates upon alternative approaches to artists’ contributions to exhibition history, reasons for unequal achievements in the separate Australian states and the photography of spectating.
KW - Australian Museum History
KW - Nationalism
KW - Spectators
KW - Aboriginal art
KW - art historiography
KW - Perth culture
KW - arts funding
KW - Curating
M3 - Review article
VL - 20
SP - 1
EP - 16
JO - Journal of Art Historiography
JF - Journal of Art Historiography
SN - 2042-4752
ER -