Best Practice: Export Quality

Best Practice: Export Quality

Vol 21 no 4, 2001


What does an artist need to establish his/her name in the competitive international art world? Gordon Bennett, Fiona Hall, Fiona Foley, Rosemary Laing, Patricia Piccinini, Roslynd Piggott, Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, Imants Tillers, and William Robinson are all becoming recognised internationally while working from an Australian base, both physically and conceptually. It seems it is no longer necessary for an artist to leave Australia to become known overseas. Also, Pt I of Donald Brook's radical new 'The Undoing of Art History'; exhibition and book reviews.


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Polemic: The Undoing of Art History (Part I)

Author: Dr Donald Brook, feature

In this part 1, the viability of the subject called Art History is challenged, using the terms 'art' and 'work of art' in a conventional way. The nature of histories as they are ascribed to 'kinds', especially art as a 'kind', cultural 'kinds', the problems associated with generalisations and the 'dilemma for the Macho 'art historian'' are ideas addressed through this text.



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