Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art最新文献

{"title":"George Gittoes in an Era of Post-Heroic, Hyper-Real Warfare","authors":"D. Jorgensen","doi":"10.1080/14434318.2020.1764229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2020.1764229","url":null,"abstract":"The drawings, paintings and films of George Gittoes have been interpreted as humanistic works of art, as they emphasise the fate of those caught up in wars around the world. Philosopher Daniel Herwitz compares Gittoes to artists from India and South Africa to align him with a global campaign for human rights and humanitarian interventionism. Media theorist Nicholas Mirzoeff has criticised the way Gittoes paints suffering in poorer parts of the world, while activists have applauded this same feature of his work, awarding him the Sydney Peace Prize in 2015 alongside Naomi Klein and Nelson Mandela. The prize came after Gittoes’ turn to documentary filmmaking in the 21st century, and his films have themselves been awarded for their humanitarianism. These documentaries work to capture the complexity of life in low-intensity war zones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and the inner cities of the United States. An examination of key drawings and paintings from the 1980s and 1990s, however, troubles this humanistic interpretation of Gittoes’ films. In their representation of machinic soldiers and mutilated victims, Gittoes’ drawings, paintings and graphic works from conflicts in Australia, Nicaragua, Somalia, and Rwanda suggest that war is as much a posthumanist experience as one demanding a humanistic response. The concepts of post-heroic and hyper-real war help to sketch out the ways in which Gittoes’ works respond to the strange and disconcerting experience of contemporary conflict. This is not to say that Gittoes does not document suffering, but that his work is also engaged with the alienating experience of wars that are increasingly conducted with advanced visual technologies and over long, drawn-out periods of time. In 1995, two texts were published that attempted to capture something of this new era of warfare. In the journal Foreign Affairs, Edward N. Luttwak named a ‘post-heroic war’ that had come about because of the reluctance of advanced Western militaries to inflict casualties on either the enemy or their own troops. The term quickly became a catch-all to describe the shift away from the total wars of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the low-intensity conflicts of the","PeriodicalId":29864,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art","volume":"20 1","pages":"54 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14434318.2020.1764229","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47244749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shaun Gladwell: Pacific Undertow","authors":"T. Gregory","doi":"10.1080/14434318.2020.1792041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2020.1792041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29864,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art","volume":"20 1","pages":"141 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14434318.2020.1792041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46314259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thunder Raining Poison: The Lineage of Protest Against Mid-Century British Nuclear Bomb Tests in Central Australia","authors":"C. Speck","doi":"10.1080/14434318.2020.1764230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2020.1764230","url":null,"abstract":"In 2017, at the Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia, the most extraordinary artwork was shown. Simply titled Kulata Tjuta (fig. 1) it consisted of traditional spears, kulata, assembled to form the spherical shape of a mushroom cloud emanating from an atomic bomb test. A bright light was at its centre, and beneath were empty piti (food-gathering bowls), empty because the land as a source of food had been contaminated. This was a joint exhibit of sixty men and women, many senior Anangu artists from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in South Australia. In an adjoining gallery space a video installation of nine screens showed archival footage of country, while the artists spoke, many for the first time publicly, about their memories and experiences of being close by when a series of atomic bomb tests were carried out by Britain in remote locations in Australia. One elder and prominent artist, Ilawanti Ken, said of this exhibit:","PeriodicalId":29864,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art","volume":"20 1","pages":"68 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14434318.2020.1764230","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48625126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Artists, Institutions, Publics: Contemporary Responses to Conflict","authors":"Kate Warren, Anthea Gunn, Mikala Tai","doi":"10.1080/14434318.2020.1764227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2020.1764227","url":null,"abstract":"When contemporary artists respond to situations of war and conflict, the processes of creation and reception can be highly complex, charged, and unpredictable. Cultural institutions play an essential role in facilitating such projects, supporting artists and presenting the final outcomes. Artistic responses to conflict may stretch and challenge established institutional boundaries and conventions, yet in doing so they very often generate some of the most potent considerations of contested histories. As former head of art at the Australian War Memorial (AWM) Ryan Johnston writes, ‘our historians might learn something from our artists when it comes to the practice of public memory’. Too often, art historical discussions around the relationship between individual artists and cultural institutions are positioned within frameworks of ‘institutional critique’, often in an antagonistic or oppositional mode. Johnston highlights the potential for reciprocal learning and sharing between artists and institutions, particularly in contexts where the artistic products are innately connected to wider politics and social histories. The opportunities and challenges afforded to contemporary artists by these different types of institutions also affect the broader reception and interpretation of the artworks produced. This article explores and analyses how different types of institutions can work with contemporary artists in these contexts. As practising arts professionals working in different organisations—a large commemorative museum, a small contemporary art gallery, and a research-intensive university—we reflect on our own institutional settings to consider how different institutional contexts affect the creation and exhibition of contemporary art that approaches topics of war, conflict, and political violence. We offer three key case studies to inform this article. Firstly, we consider how contemporary art at the AWM has expanded the institution’s traditions of presenting the art of conflict, artefacts, and archives alongside a national memorial to those killed in military service. Secondly, we explore how Sydney’s small independent gallery 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art has been redefining ways to support contemporary artists engaging with contested","PeriodicalId":29864,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art","volume":"20 1","pages":"23 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14434318.2020.1764227","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48817069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Roger Blackley (1953–2019)","authors":"G. Batchen","doi":"10.1080/14434318.2020.1792045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2020.1792045","url":null,"abstract":"‘Do we choose our fields of research or do they choose us?’ The question is the first sentence in the Preface to Roger Blackley’s most important book, 2018’s Galleries of Maoriland. He follows it with a memory of being taken to the Dominion Museum as a schoolboy and marvelling at the artefacts in the Maori Hall. He would spend his career as a curator and art historian forging an historical conversation between this world and his own, in the process transforming the shape of New Zealand’s art history. Born and raised in small towns in New Zealand, Blackley was introduced to art by an inspiring teacher at Tararua College in Pahiatua. Attracted to a life of the mind, he eventually found himself studying towards an Arts degree at the University of Auckland. However, as he ruefully later remembered, when he was a student in the Art History department, no classes were offered about the art of his own country. But, in 1973, Blackley saw an exhibition of the watercolours of nineteenth-century artist Alfred Sharpe at the Auckland Art Gallery. Struck by both the paintings and the artist’s unusual biography (Sharpe was deaf and mute), Blackley searched the newspapers of Sharpe’s time to find out more about him. This kind of deep primary research, using newspapers to capture both a social context and the character of the times (‘anecdotage’ was the joke he made at his own expense), became characteristic of all his work. By 1978 he had written a Masters thesis about Sharpe. After he had been appointed the curator of historical New Zealand art at Auckland City Art Gallery, this thesis became the basis for a catalogue and exhibition on Sharpe he curated in 1992. The choice was a telling one. Throughout his working life, Blackley gravitated to the margins, to those media or figures that were forgotten or considered not quite respectable by other art historians. As Christina Barton put it in 2008, ‘a distinctive quality of Blackley’s scholarly work is to examine those areas that seem beyond the pale, either because they address genres that do not conform to the conventions of high art, or because their reception took place in non-art contexts’. Blackley’s writing broke with other kinds of conventions too. In 1995, for example, he wrote an essay for Art New Zealand that questioned the ‘slim basis’ on which a","PeriodicalId":29864,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art","volume":"20 1","pages":"151 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14434318.2020.1792045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46646090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Japanese Art in Australasia During the Second World War","authors":"R. Bullen, Tets Kimura","doi":"10.1080/14434318.2020.1764232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2020.1764232","url":null,"abstract":"Nowhere other than in war are people’s social lives more insistently determined by their relationship to the objects which represent them, and through which they come to know and define themselves....","PeriodicalId":29864,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art","volume":"20 1","pages":"107 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14434318.2020.1764232","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44770388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"After Aftershock: The Affect–Trauma Paradigm One Generation After 9/11","authors":"Kit Messham-Muir, Uroš Čvoro","doi":"10.1080/14434318.2020.1764233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2020.1764233","url":null,"abstract":"As we write this sentence, the United States is commemorating the eighteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. A generation, some of whom are now adults, has been born since that event and has never...","PeriodicalId":29864,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art","volume":"20 1","pages":"125 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14434318.2020.1764233","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44082975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction","authors":"Kit Messham-Muir, Uroš Čvoro","doi":"10.1080/14434318.2020.1764225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2020.1764225","url":null,"abstract":"I want to assure the American people that we’re doing everything we can each day to confront and ultimately defeat this horrible invisible enemy. We’re at war, in a true sense, we’re at war, and we’re fighting an invisible enemy... A number of people have said it, but, and I feel it actually, I’m a wartime president, there’s a war, there’s a war, different kind of a war that we’ve ever had. Donald J. Trump, 45 President of the United States, 23 March 2020.","PeriodicalId":29864,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art","volume":"20 1","pages":"1 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14434318.2020.1764225","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42491251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quilty","authors":"F. Russell","doi":"10.1080/14434318.2020.1792042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2020.1792042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29864,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art","volume":"20 1","pages":"144 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14434318.2020.1792042","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47568692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Saint Sequence, Cudtheringa (Castle Hill)","authors":"N. Lynch","doi":"10.1080/14434318.2019.1681611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2019.1681611","url":null,"abstract":"The Saint graffiti on the northern-most bluff of Cudtheringa (Castle Hill), Townsville, forms part of a decade-long sequence of paintings on rock by non-Indigenous male groups. The sequence compris...","PeriodicalId":29864,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art","volume":"19 1","pages":"222 - 235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14434318.2019.1681611","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41809635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}