Art for the Country : The Story of Victoria's Regional Art Galleries |
Autore | Edgar Don |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Melbourne : , : Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty, Limited, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (498 pages) |
Disciplina | 708.9945 |
Soggetto topico |
Art museums
Australia |
ISBN | 1-922454-70-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794681903321 |
Edgar Don | ||
Melbourne : , : Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty, Limited, , 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Art for the Country : The Story of Victoria's Regional Art Galleries |
Autore | Edgar Don |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Melbourne : , : Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty, Limited, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (498 pages) |
Disciplina | 708.9945 |
Soggetto topico |
Art museums
Australia |
ISBN | 1-922454-70-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826538103321 |
Edgar Don | ||
Melbourne : , : Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty, Limited, , 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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