| Description |
143 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction. Scrubbing up: the art of criticism -- Thought on avant-garde / James Gleeson -- Masters' apprenticeship / Giles Auty -- Pollock's Blue Poles / Sandra McGrath -- Reflections on Archibald / Christopher Allen -- Naming rights / Gene Autry -- Field sets the pace / Patrick McCaughey -- Entertainment, yes... but is this really art? / Alan McCulloch -- In defence of the abstract / James Gleeson -- Conformity with a set square / Laurie Thomas -- Our reputation could be better / Daniel Thomas -- No Tata to Dada / Elwyn Lynn -- Paul Boston is a burglar of a special kind / Gary Catalano -- Mysticism that masquerades profundity / Donald Brook --Fifteen minutes that shook the world / Bruce James -- Ian Fairweather owns two cultures / James Gleeson -- Imants's images: fair borrowing is no robbery / Terry Smith -- Anybody here seen Kelly? / Sandra McGrath -- Joy Hester's fine art / Janine Burke -- The king of ratbaggery / Robert Nelson -- Black is beautiful / Daniel Thomas -- How the West was won over / Ted Snell -- Hallmark of the great / Sasha Grishin -- A Martian looks in on Sydney art / Donald Brook -- Judy gets it wrong / David Bromfield -- The art of Spoofing the precious object / Laurie Thomas -- Dumb / Peter Timms -- Colourful sisterhood / Robert Rooney -- Sculpture worth a second glance / Benjamin Genocchio --Movements in art and craft / Gene Autry -- Jenny Watson, subversive? / Terence Maloon -- Once an annual exercise, now a non-event / Elwyn Lynn -- Monument for the times / Jacques Delaruelle -- Margaret Olley / Paul Haefliger -- Elusive Tucker at war / Gary Catalano -- Portrait of the painter as a waitress / Bruce James -- Christo / Laurie Thomas -- Five Bells, John Olsen / Benjamin Genocchio -- Reassessing Brack's cool, cruel world / Robert Nelson -- Stranger in a strange land / Nancy Borlase -- Howard Arkley / Peter Timms -- Local prophet worthy of more honour / Bernard Smith -- Long on compassion and ideology, short on flair / Terence Maloon -- Roar Studios / Chrisopher Heathcote -- The Baru bites back / Tim Bonyhady -- Fred Williams: a great modernist / Patrick McCaughey --Now is the column really necessary? / Donald Brook -- Critics who usurp the artist's role / Laurie Thomas -- Thoughts on art criticism / James Gleeson -- Revealed: black art scandal / Susan McCulloch -- Whose handprints? / Susan McCulloch -- Lauded black artists admist: it's not my work / Susan McCulloch -- Critical opinion aids standards / Alan McCulloch -- Postcript. The Critic's curse / Humphrey McQueen |
| Summary |
The first anthology of modern Australian art criticism ever published which includes many reviews that raised a ruckus in Australian art over the past fifty years. From parodies to paeans, the merit of the Australian art scene, artists, dealers, museum directors and critics are discussed and debated in pieces of journalistic art criticism |
| Analysis |
Theory of art / aesthetics |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes index |
| In |
Queensland. Queensland legislation reprints 13 December 2002 |
| Subject |
Art criticism -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
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Art, Australian -- 20th century.
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Art criticism -- Australia.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Author |
Genocchio, Benjamin.
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| LC no. |
2003447445 |
| ISBN |
1877004111 : |
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