Art for the Country : The Story of Victoria's Regional Art Galleries

• Autore: Edgar Don
• Pubblicazione: Melbourne : , : Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty, Limited, , 2019; ©2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (498 pages)
• Disciplina: 708.9945
• Soggetto topico: Art museums; Australia
• Soggetto geografico: Australia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Art for the Country
• Titolo autorizzato: Art for the Country
• ISBN: 1-922454-70-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910794681903321
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