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Mendelssohn, Joanna, Catherine de Lorenzo, Alison Inglis und Catherine Speck: Australian art exhibitions. Opening our eyes, Thames & Hudson, Port Melbourne 2018, ISBN 9780500501214

Table of Contents        ¦         Cover Text        ¦         Review⁄Abstract

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -6-

Glossary of Abbreviations -8-

Foreword -11-

Introduction -15-

1. Taking the initiative: State gallery directors in the 1950s & 1960s -27-

2. A national picture: The impact of Whitlam and the Australia Council -45-

3. Exhibitions re-defining the nature of art -63-

4. Blockbuster exhibitions and their consequences -93-

5. Re-examining Australia's past: Colonialism and nationalism -119-

6. The centenary years and beyond -153-

7. Australian modernism -189-

8. Modernism, feminism: What of the women? -225-

9. The Aboriginal Art Revolution -243-

10. Exhibiting the present -289-

11. A new Australia -327-

12. Different modes of engagement -351-

Conclusion: The value of exhibitions -373-

Appendix I: Exhibitions -382-

Appendix II: Institutional career paths -388-

Appendix III: Select Bibliography -395-

Index -400-

The authors -415-