Table of Contents
Introduction: The Australian Art Field — Fractures and Frictions
Deborah Stevenson, Tony Bennett, Fred Myers and Tamara Winikoff
Part 1: Framing the Arts
Introduction: Tony Bennett
1. The Australian Visual Arts Exhibitionary Complex - Terry Smith
2. Mona and the Political-Cultural Economy of Independent Galleries - Adrian Franklin
3. On the Possibility of Another Australian Art History - Rex Butler and A.D.S. Donaldson
4. ‘Craftsperson’, ‘Artist’, ‘Designer’: Problematising the ‘Art Versus Commerce’ Divide Within Australian Creative Fields Today - Susan Luckman
5. Feminist Effects: Australian Visual Artists Past, Present, Future - Julie Ewington
6. Australian Working-Class Art Field: Its Making and Unmaking - Tony Moore
7. Liking Australian Art, Liking Australian Culture - Tony Bennett and Modesto Gayo
Part 2: Governance, Institutions and the Social
Introduction: Deborah Stevenson
8. Cultural Policy in Australia: Key Themes in the Governance of the Arts - Deborah Stevenson
9. Experiments with Arts Institutions: The Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation and Frontyard - Laura Fisher and Alexandra Crosby
10. Art Education and the Maker Movement: Identity, Wellbeing, Community, and Entrepreneurship - Kylie Budge
11. Why We Need to Talk about Race in the Arts or the Limits of Aspirational Diversity - Rimi Khan
12. Artist Activism in a Cultural Policy Void - Cecelia Cmielewski
13. Gaming the Data: The Evaluation of Cultural Activities and the Tensions for Public Policy - Hilary Glow and Katya Johanson
14. Arguing Value: Attitudes and Activism - Tamara Winikoff
Part 3: Indigenous Art
Introduction: Fred Myers
15. The Work of Art: Hope, Disenchantment and Indigenous Art in Australia - Fred Myers
16.Indigenising the Australian Artworld: National Culture and State Sovereignty - Ian McLean
17.Approaching the Sovereign: From Art Centres to Art Fairs - Jennifer Biddle
18.Indigenous Curatorial Interpellations: Insistence and Refusal - Stephen Gilchrist
Part Four: Artist's Voices
Introduction: Tamara Winikoff
19.Danie Mellor: Speaking of an Unquiet Country
20 Julie Gough: Testing the Ground: Art and ‘Difficult’ Histories
21 Hossein Valamanesh: In Between
22 Julie Shiels: Cultural Democracy in Action
23 Julie Rrap: Body Disclosures
24 Ben Quilty: Labour and Ritual
25 Deborah Kelly: Futile Fighting, Fanciful Folly