The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art
One of our core activities is publishing the annual scholarly journal, the “Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art”. It is the principal refereed art-historical journal in Australasia (it is an A ranked journal within the ERA framework). Through publishing in the “Journal”, art-historians can present their research and receive academic accreditation. Since 2006, the editorial board has been Brisbane-based, with Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art (IMA) operating as the “Journal’s” co-publisher. The editorial board perennially wrestles with competing content and audience issues, and prides itself on its rigorous and multidisciplinary approach encompassing issues at the forefront of the discipline and its ever changing disciplinary and cultural environment. All essays are double-blind externally peer refereed, while reviews are addressed internally by the board and its reviews editor. Non-refereed content—including roundtables, interviews, and pictorial sections—give shape and coherence to thematic issues. The “Journal” is mailed to AAANZ members and subscribers, and can be purchased at art-specialist bookshops in Australia and New Zealand. Current and back issues are available on several electronic online systems, including RMIT Publishing/INFORMIT and HW WILSON, which can be assessed via fee-paying libraries throughout the world.
For submission guidelines please consult the IMA website here.
art and entertainment
2011
This issue addresses the theme of ‘Art and Entertainment’. What is the relationship between art and entertainment today? Are they simply antithetical? And are we headed into a new ‘post-critical’ situation? Contributions by Catherine Liu, Sven Lütticken, Edward Colless, Damiano Bertoli, Jacqueline Millner, Justin Clemens, Nicholas Croggan and Charles Green. Plus an ‘Art and Entertain Forum’ and reviews. Jointly published with the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. $20.
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the conference
2010
This issue of the “Journal” draws on papers from the 2008 Art Association conference in Brisbane. Glenn Adamson maps craft. Pamela M. Lee reads Oyvind Fahlstrom’s work through game theory. Richard Read looks at paintings of the backs of paintings. Leonard Bell links Augustus Earle and Charles Darwin. Juliette Peers ponders the neglect of early Australian fashion. Fae Brauer exposes double standards in depictions of children. Stephen Jones celebrates Australian computer-graphics pioneer Frank Eidlitz. Uta Daur characterises Tracey Moffatt’s work as melodramatic. Anthony Gardner applauds dissident artists Lia Perjovschi and Tom Nicholson. Plus reviews. Jointly published with the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. $20.
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21st-century art history
2009
This bumper issue speculates on the forms art history will take in the wake of globalism, with contributions by Okwui Enwezor, Nakamura Kazue, Darren Jorgensen, Jan Baetens, John Clark, Alexander Alberro, Huw Hallam, Jennifer A. McMahon, Catherine Speck and Georgina Downey, Rex Butler and A. D. S. Donaldson, Christina Barton, and Melissa Miles; a forum on the history of the Asia-Pacific Triennial; projects by artists Michael Stevenson and Mladen Bizumic; plus book reviews. Jointly published with the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. $20.
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post-medium
2007
Our first issue investigates the role of the medium today, when artists routinely work in and across different media. References to our current ‘post-medium condition’ have become ubiquitous and the old ideal of medium-specificity is firmly identified with high modernism. Do today’s post-medium practices demonstrate the redundancy of medium as a category for understanding art, or is medium still crucial to aesthetic judgement? Indeed, do post-medium practices mark a return to an earlier form of modernism? This issue of the “Journal” examines a wide range of critical positions and artistic practices which focus on the question of the medium in art. It features essays by Diarmuid Costello on Jeff Wall and Gerhard Richter, by Rosemary Hawker on Gerhard Richter, by Donna McColm on Morris Louis, and by Toni Ross on Andrea Zittel; an interview with French philosopher Jacques Ranciere; a pictorial by Berlin painter Katharina Grosse; and book and exhibition reviews. Jointly published with the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. $20.