LEADER 03149nam 22004453 450 001 9910794681903321 005 20231004062818.0 010 $a1-922454-70-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000011816482 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6524343 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6524343 035 $a(OCoLC)1243553304 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011816482 100 $a20210901d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aArt for the Country $eThe Story of Victoria's Regional Art Galleries 210 1$aMelbourne :$cAustralian Scholarly Publishing Pty, Limited,$d2019. 210 4$dİ2019. 215 $a1 online resource (498 pages) 311 $a1-925801-33-0 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- PREFACE A Personal Discovery of Art in the Country -- INTRODUCTION Times When the Arts Could Thrive -- 1 An Extraordinary Man -Ballarat Art Gallery, 1884 -- 2 Old Timers Wanting More - Bendigo Art Gallery, 1887 -- 3 Not the Archibald - Warrnambool Art Gallery and Museum, 1886/87 -- 4 Trying to Keep Up - Geelong Art Gallery, 1896 -- 5 Comfortable Castlemaine, 1913-1931 -- 6 A Small Civic Start - Shepparton, 1936 -- 7 Some Early (Halting) Moves to Support the Provincial Galleries -- 8 Mildura - Intrigue, Community Conflict and Individual Drive -- 9 Getting the Galleries Together - A 'Reluctant' National Gallery -- 10 Hamilton - Squatter Legacies - Upstaging the Others?, 1961 -- 11 Benalla - Patronage in a Community Divided -- 12 Centralism and the Struggle for Control -- 13 Smaller Towns Seeking a Place at the Table -- 14 Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement, 1965 - What Qualifies as a Gallery? -- 15 Regionalism as a Guiding Concept -- 16 A New Constitution (RGAV), 1970 -- 17 Ambitious but Ambivalent- Westbrook and the NGV -- 18 Suburban Rivalry - McClelland Gallery, 1961 and Mornington Peninsula Gallery, 1969 -- 19 Gippsland Competitors - Sale, 1965 and Morwell, 1971 -- 20 It's Too Much Work - The Battle for an Executive Officer -- 21 Warrnambool -Cleaning with Ajax -- 22 Bendigo - Shaken, Not Stirred -- 23 Ballarat - Flagging Its Wares -- 24 Geelong - One Direction or Multiple Directors? -- 25 Hamilton - Political Favouritism and the Sandby Collection -- 26 The Smaller Galleries Hit Their Straps -- 27 Mildura Arts Centre, 1966: Boot Him Out! -- 28 Geelong Arts Centre - Infighting in an Ugly Town. 29 New Beginnings, or the Beginning of the End? -- 30 The Galleries Today: Public Response and the Future -- Notes -- APPENDIX Public Galleries Under the PGAV in 2018 -- List of Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index. 517 $aArt for the Country 606 $aArt museums 606 $aAustralia$2fast 607 $aAustralia 615 0$aArt museums. 615 7$aAustralia 676 $a708.9945 700 $aEdgar$b Don$01524171 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794681903321 996 $aArt for the Country$93764789 997 $aUNINA