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Art Mind Beauty (Current Issue)Art/Mind/Beauty tackles one of the questions exercising the minds of philosophers in the age of neuro-science - how does the mind create notions of beauty and why are some artists and audiences drawn to the fragile, the shimmering, the highly decorative and the nature-inspired? Has contemporary art ... Browse vol 28 no 2 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Fuel for Thought: oil, energy, conflict and artHow are artists responding to peak oil, the search for alternative energy sources and conflict over resources? Artlink goes global in search of answers. The issue includes artists who have used alternative energy or whose work reflects the negative effects of an oil-based economy, with some powerful... Browse Vol 28 no 1 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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WorkWhat defines what an artist does when they are at work? Do artists actually work in the normal sense of the word, or do they play out their obsessions in various ways? This issue explores the modes in which artists can function - as a solo operator, as a collaborator with one long-term partner, work... Browse Vol 27 no 4 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Screen DeepSCREEN DEEP edited by Julianne Pierce looks at the global phenomenon that is moving image in the artworld. In the last five years video art, formerly a marginal form, has become mainstream. Having moving image in an exhibition is now de rigueur, but critique of much of the vast output of video arti... Browse vol 27 no 3 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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The South Issue: New HorizonsBeyond the well-trodden Northern Hemisphere centres, Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists in South Africa, Chile, the Maldives, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore and Australia establish an idea of South which goes beyond geography, extending old boundaries and ideas through dialogue, collaboration a... Browse vol 27 no 2 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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The Word As ArtHow is it that so many artists continue to choose text as a means of communication over visual imagery? What do words in a visual arts context contribute to the nature of art practice, and where has this tradition come from? The marriage of image and word in the contemporary urban environment is onl... Browse Vol 27 no 1 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Elders: The Old MagicA group of art practitioners, artists, curators and writers, in their seventh and eighth decades are the subject of our focus. Still actively working, they are charismatic elders whose influence on several generations of young artists has been a crucial part of the development of contemporary practi... Browse Vol 26 no 4 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Currents II Biennial series of issues on mid-career artists. In-depth essays on eight established artists working in painting, installation, public art, digital art, photography and sculpture: Robert Owen by Caroline Barnes, Kevin Todd by Sean Kelly, Heather Ellyard by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, eX de Medici by... Browse Vol 26 no 3 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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New Zealand Contemporary Art Turangawaewae A Place to StandWell known Australian writer, artist and editor, Stephanie Radok is the editor of New Zealand Contemporary Art Turangawaewae: A Place to Stand, launched at the Sydney Biennale and at ARTSPACE Auckland. Artists and galleries throughout New Zealand have never been so active, with international program... Browse Vol 26 no 2 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Art History: Go FigureArt History: Go Figure reconfigures Australian art history. While linear visions of heroic artists are often presented in art galleries, university teachers, researchers and other scholars are uncovering and disseminating a much more multi-faceted vision of Australian art history. The absence of Ind... Browse Vol 26 no 1 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Ecology: Everyone's BusinessArt in relation to the environment and ecology engages a distinct subgroup of artists around the world. They deal with waste and obsolescence, water, air and earth, health and toxicity. Eco-warrior artists work with science, technology, farming, water resources, recycling industries, health, to make... Browse Vol 25 no 4 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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StirringPolemical essays in Stirring address the 'white thing' of Indigenous art, the track record of AbaF (Australian Business and the Arts Foundation), the challenge to traditional printmaking from the new giclee (inkjet) technology, the Australia Council and Howardism. We also take a look at the internat... Browse Vol 25 no 3 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Remote Remote is an exploration in texts and images of the cultures of the remote areas of Australia - the Top End and the Centre. It looks at the visual arts production of both Indigenous and whitefella artists across the whole region and is going to be a very significant landmark in documenting the new ... Browse Vol 25 no 2 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Handmade: the New LabourWhat place remains in a fast, digital world for the slow, painstaking work of making things? Many artists still spend long hours working by hand on unique objects whether sculpture, furniture, drawing, fibre, even photography. In the light of increasing use of hands-off production the work of Ricky ... Browse Vol 25 no 1 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Hybrid WorldThe constant interchange of artists and ideas globally, encouraged by the world network of artist residencies has resulted in new genres of hybrid practice. Multiculturalism is reassessed, together with indigeneity, Pasifika, Asian threads and the South as a cultural force.... Browse Vol 24 no 4 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Currents IIn depth profiles of leading Australian artists Narelle Autio, Catherine Woo, Sue Ford, Gosia Wlodarczak, David Wadelton, Gunther Christmann, Michael Nelson Jagamara: many strands of current visual arts. Ian North reviews the Biennale of Sydney and '2004: Australian Culture Now'.... Browse Vol 24 no 3 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Shopping & Extreme PleasuresHas art become just another consumer product? Relationship of art to retail and porn eg in the work of James Guppy, Jose da Silva. Also the Auckland Triennial reviewed. Co-editor Helen Grace... Browse Vol 24 no 2 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Adelaide and BeyondThinkers, artists, regional arts, art in schools, human rights, biotechnology, environmental art, youg artists in Adelaide. Cover by Kristian Burford. Guest editor Stephanie Radok.... Browse Vol 24 no 1 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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The China PhenomenonThe artworld has acquired a new set of players - Chinese artists who have adopted western modes without relinquishing their traditional Chinese training and discipline. The success of these practitioners has been astounding. In a few years they have risen to prominence in many countries. We compare ... Browse Vol 23 no 4 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Rich & StrangeAn overview of key issues in Australia, cutting edge art practice and their echoes in the global arena.
Juliana Engberg curates FACE UP a big show for the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin and Isabel Carlos directs the 2004 Sydney Biennale. Comparisons between South African and Australian art are... Browse Vol 23 no 3 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Critical Mass: the new BrisbaneAn account of how a backward sub-tropical city reinvented itself as a major centre for the arts and creative industries. Guest editor Ian Hamilton.... Browse Vol 23 no 2 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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FalloutA nation trying to deal with a phoney war, the resurfacing of racism, paranoia and panic over border control and a population deeply split over its government's actions in relation to these. Artists respond to the shame of the Children Overboard episode, the Tampa Crisis, the inhuman conditions in o... Browse Vol 23 no 1 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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New museums, new agendasA nation's museums are an index of its understanding of itself. We examine the controversies and debates surrounding new museums in Canberra and Melbourne which have challenged the conventional wisdom. Charles Esche proposes that a new breed of less tightly prescriptive art institutions can be catal... Browse Vol 22 no 4 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Art & EnterpriseGuest editor Dorothy Erickson. How important are entrepreneurial skills in advancing an artist's career, and can the patronage of big business be a make or break factor? Artlink travels to the boom city of Perth in Western Australia, founded on private enterprise and gold mining, to see how artists ... Browse Vol 22 no 3 | Sold Out |
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PlaceGuest editor Stephanie Radok. In the age of the internet where you live may not be where your community is, but most people still draw their spiritual sustenance from the place they call home. Becoming conscious of this and working with it is a preoccupation of many creators whether they live in cit... Browse Vol 22 no 2 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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The 'Improved' Body: animals & humansThe implications of the new biotechnology for the human body and for the future of the species is visualised. Recent revelations that genetic makeup of animals is much closer to humans than was previously thought and possibilitues of trans-species hybridity is no longer just the stuff of myth or sci... Browse Vol 22 no 1 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Best Practice: Export QualityWhat 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 wh... Browse Vol 21 no 4 | Sold Out |
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E-volution of New MediaGuest editor Kathy Cleland With computers now regarded as just another tool for artists, digital art is becoming accepted as a medium for art. Less understood is that the internet is potentially a powerful new way of showing art.Web-based art, soundworks, and writing are all explored as well as hybr... Browse Vol 21 no 3 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Art and ChildhoodGuest editor: Felicity Fenner The depiction of children in art has steadily diminished in recent decades as attitudes to childhood itself have changed. The influence of child art on modernism has not been adequately acknowledged, and contemporary art shows a huge debt to notions of children's play, ... Browse Vol 21 no 2 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Taking in WaterArtists are focusing on water as a subject from environmental, political and social perspectives as well as aesthetic. In recent years there have been many exhibitions and projects around water, wind, weather, irrigation systems, pollution, tides, waste, threats to waterways, and the nature of islan... Browse Vol 21 no 1 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Sculpture and CitiesFocus on new art in public places around Australia, problems and possible solutions. Commissions that have been successes and failures. Sydney Olympic commissions. Also update on four artists, Frank Bauer, Victor Meertens, Asher Bilu, and Jim Paterson. Interviews with Peter Sellars on a radical Ad... Browse Vol 20 no 4 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Reflection: 20th Anniversary IssueGuest editor Stephanie Radok Looking back and looking forward. Revisiting some of Artlink's favourite themes over the 2 decades and offering new perspectives for the next decade: ecology, new media, regional arts, Indigenous art, museum practice, craft, theories of art especially that of Donald Broo... Browse Vol 20 no 3 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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The Long Stare: seeing Contemporary Asian art nowSurvey of recent art from Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnem, Thailand, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan as seen during the three editions of the Asia Pacific Triennial at the Queensland Art Gallery as well as flow-on from these events. A g... Browse Vol 20 no 2 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Reconciliation: Indigenous art for the 21st CenturyA major survey of Australian Indigenous art, overviews and polemic, tributes to major artists, social issues, 'scandals ', the Stolen Generation, health and art, diverse practices, exhibitions and commissions, new museum displays, industry matters, labels of authenticity, copyright and moral rights,... Browse Vol 20 no 1 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Good Taste: Food, Consumption & PleasureGuest editor Hannah Fink. There is a current of nausea running through this issue...yet this queasiness has perhaps more to do with a dis-ease with the manner in which we take our pleasures than the creative impulse itself. Food as cultural history, cookbooks, artists as cooks, artists' recipes, be... Browse Vol 19 no 4 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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DisintegrationPioneering issue on the concept of disintegration and the new Millennium. Fin de siecle broodings on breakdown, desperation and fracture. Articles explore new technologies in the arts as well as specific regions, Asia and indigenous Australia. Reviews... Browse Vol 19 no 3 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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The Future of ArtSpeculations about art practice, art education, and questions of access to art are illustrated by case studies of five individual artists, and analyses of the state of play in our educational institutions and surveys of new media, regional and multicultural debates. Professionalism for artists is ex... Browse Vol 19 no 2 | Sold Out |
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Mining the ArchiveGuest editor Zara Stanhope. Reflects a range of recent artistic and curatorial responses to particular collections as well as considerations of the nature of archival material and knowledge in the broader sense. ... Browse Vol 19 no 1 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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The Big Pond: Australian Artists OverseasExplores the issues facing Australian artists who are working overseas or who are promoting Australian art to an international audience -- strategies, funding, exhibitions, residencies, marketing issues. Looks at contemporary and indigenous visual art practice. ... Browse Vol 18 no 4 | Sold Out |
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Art, Pornography & CensorshipGuest editor: Dr Robert Crocker. The conflicts created by centuries of suppression and the demonisation of sex and sensuality are a heavy burden for all of us in the West, whatever our views on pornography or censorship. Explores the 'sex effect' in contemporary art. Is the freedom of the art wo... Browse Vol 18 no 3 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Public Art in AustraliaThe last issue looking at public art was in 1989. Since then the act of putting an artwork into the public arena has become a theatre of conflict, misunderstanding and mismatch of expectations of the parties involved. Issues of community consultation, funding, location, relevance, corporate policy... Browse Vol 18 no 2 | Sold Out |
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Art & the SpiritWide-ranging responses to issues of spirituality in the visual arts. Looks at the role of indigenous art and its relationship to land. Examines significant contemporary exhibitions addressing art and the spirit. ... Browse Vol 18 no 1 | Sold Out |
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Emerging ArtistsGuest editor Stephanie Radok. A diverse, challenging collection of articles which examines the issues confronting the newest category of funding - the emerging artist. Are the needs of emerging artists so different from those of other artists? ... Browse Vol 17 no 4 | Sold Out |
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Looking at the RepublicVisualising Australia in the lead up to the new Millennium and a possible Republic. How will Australia re-present itself to the region? Icons and logos of Australia, a new flag, sport and porn, art for a banana republic. ... Browse Vol 17 no 3 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Art & MedicineAn issue which explores the new frontiers of the body and the intersection of medical technology with imaging the body and art. Examines the role of art and healing and the body as the site for new ways of looking at ourselves. Reviews... Browse Vol 17 no 2 | Sold Out |
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Design in AustraliaExamines the issues of art and design and looks at the practice within Australia in metal, furniture, ceramics, textiles, publishing, graphics landscape products etc. Do we have a sustainable future? Is there an Australian Design culture? Looks at courses which are available through different ins... Browse Vol 17 no 1 | Sold Out |
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Indigenous Arts of the PacificExamines contemporary issues facing communities in the Pacific region. Art and economics, cross-cultural issues, politics and subsidy, festival and promotions are included in the overview which looks at Australian indigenous art, Maori art from New Zealand, art from Papua New Guinea, Cook Islands, ... Browse Vol 16 no 4 | Sold Out |
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Art in the Electronic LandscapeDouble issue issued with Artlink's CD Rom Sequinz - a survey of electronic art in Australia (Mac users only). The issue examines multimedia and education, frontiers and challenges, the future and audience interaction. Cutting edge issue, opening up many of the ongoing debates about the impact of t... Browse Vol 16 nos 2&3 | Sold Out |
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Men's Business: Masculinities ReflectedGuest edited by Noel Sanders and Kurt Brereton, this issue examines the male image in art, the gay scene, fathers and sons, men in their sheds and many other topics germane to gender, sexuality and identity. Exhibition and book reviews included as well.... Browse Vol 16 no 1 | Sold Out |
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Taste Meets KitschGuest editor Juliette Peers. A bold and challenging issue that examines taste and kitsch, art beyond the 'canon', real Australian bad taste, Aboriginality and kitsch, kitschophrenia, ritual, rites and performance, fairies, dolls and trading cards. Only for the really bold! ... Browse Vol 15 no 4 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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The FaceDouble issue. Major discussion of the artist and the industry - a provocative article with responses as well as an examination of issues in portraiture-- in your face, looking for meaning, looking at faces, ghosts from the past-- the portraits of today tell a different story. ... Browse Vol 15 no 2&3 | Sold Out |
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Culture/AgricultureLooking at the Landscape, the cultural meanings of what we grow, region = bioregion, botany and the body, farming as art, bush tucker as well as reviews of exhibitions and books make up this feast of an issue. ... Browse Vol 15 no 1 | Sold Out |
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Art & Death: Facing MortalityGuest editor Peter Bishop. Artlink looks at art and death, facing mortality, abjection - pleasure and cinema, forensics, mortuary and mourning ritual, art and war, AIDS and grief, Aboriginal artists and death, memorials and landscapes for the dead, gender identity and death. A challenging issue. ... Browse Vol 14 no 4 | Sold Out |
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Sydney: the Big ShiftGuest editor Joanna Mendelssohn. Controversial issue looking at Sydney, the town, the people and the art. Examines western Sydney, youth art, gay and lesbian art, public art and Aboriginal art. What exactly is the incestuous inner circle? Reviews... Browse Vol 14 no 3 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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The Art of SurvivalA jam packed issue that examines all those issues dear to every heart -- How to survive as an artist. Is it possible to live off art? Who are the new artist entrepreneurs? What is the strength of the artist co-operative? Is social security the patron saint of artists? As well as the usual plet... Browse Vol 14 no 2 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Art & the Feminist ProjectVery popular issue looking at art and women's issues. Reprinted. Articles examine difference, women looking at women, heresies, women and nation. Includes new statistics. Reviews.... Browse Vol 14 no 1 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Contemporary Arts of the Region: SE Asia & AustraliaArticles on contemporary art from Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore commissioned by local editors. Surveys of the important movements of modern times up to nineties in each country. Tension between traditional cultural expression and internationalism. Art made in response to poli... Browse Vol 13 no 3&4 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Dimensions: Sculpture in AustraliaGreat collection of articles looking at the issues surrounding thinking and making in three dimensions -- Mildura, shamanism, New Guinea, Representation, Women and Sculpture, Regional achievers, Sculpture as satire, Aboriginal ceremony and much more. An essential issue for any one with an interest... Browse Vol 13 no 2 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Film & VideoSpecial issue on film and video. Guest editor Annette Blonski. Examines independent practice in the 1990s - sexuality and ethnicity, postmodernity, indigenous work, festivals, short films, survival on a low or no budget and electronic art. Includes SCAN+ Volume 4 1993 Special Supplement edited by ... Browse Vol 13 no 1 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Naive & Outsider ArtChallenging issue which looks at naive and outsider art. Think about tattoos, topiary, whittling, garden landscapes, commercialisation - all sorts of issues to challenge the usual stereotypes. Reviews... Browse Vol 12 no 4 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Art and the EconomyWhat does the recession mean for artworkers? Looks at all the hard issues providing for the art worker a guide to the economy. Includes reflections on people and place, artists exchange with the usual abundance of reviews and points of view. Reviews ... Browse Vol 12 no 3 | Sold Out |
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Thinking Craft, Crafting ThoughtA special issue which in arguing the old art/ craft debate is proposing usable theories for practice. What is the future for craft? Re-evaluating 'women's work', craft, science and technology. Reviews... Browse Vol 12 no 2 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Museums on the EdgeGuest editor Louise Dauth. Aimed to redress the paucity of readily available material on the Australian and New Zealand experience of museums and galleries. Challenges attitudes to heritage, roles of museums, economic rationalism, gender, radical changed, indigenous material and repatriation, mult... Browse Vol 12 no 1 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Art, Architecture & the EnvironmentSpecial issue. Art as conservation of natural and built environments, art as ecology, new alliances, eco-design, autonomous houses, ecopolis, earth building, housing co-operatives, collaborative designs, sustainable cities. Great articles and photos.... Browse Vol 11 no 4 | Sold Out |
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Art & EducationArt Education and art publishing. The art education riddle and educating artists for the 21st century. Will universities empower art and design education? Art book publishing, conspicuous talent and market place neglect. Reviews... Browse Vol 11 no 3 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Arts in a Multicultural AustraliaDouble issue examining the issues of arts in a multicultural context in Australia. Looks at the diversity of art practice, how it has developed and future possibilities. There are case studies, artists' profiles and snapshots of the various arts organisations involved in culturally and linguistica... Browse Vol 11 nos 1&2 | Sold Out |
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10th Birthday IssueArtlink's 10th birthday issue. Under scrutiny Sydney Biennale, Sculpture Triennial, Adelaide Biennial, art and the media, Artists Week and the art market. Also - is there a feminist architecture? Misreading Soviet art, visiting Vietnam and artificial intelligence. a good read! Reviews... Browse Vol 10 no 4 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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Community ArtsYes but what IS community arts? a strategy for social reform? a way of life? a political movement? a victory for the margins? a type of social welfare? a radical challenge to the art institution? a model for a new culture?... Browse Vol 10 no 3 | Sold Out |
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Contemporary Australian Aboriginal ArtClassic groundbreaking double issue. Reprinted by demand. Looks at traditions in evolution, the role of Art in the survival of the culture, the art market and legal issues, the issues faced by artists working in isolation, indigenous film, video and radio, with a wide range of individual artists pro... Browse Vol 10 nos 1&2 | Purchase back issue | Purchase a mini library |
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