Category Archives: ANZJA

ANZJA Call for Papers: pecial Issue, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi, The Pacific Ocean joins us all

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Special Issue, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi, The Pacific Ocean joins us all: 23.2, 2023 Submissions Due: Friday March 31, 2023 Editors: Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions to be a part of Issue 2, 2023, entitled, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi. The Pacific Ocean joins us all.  This Special Issue is edited by Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte. ANZJA welcomes Indigenous curators, artists and art historians to submit material for the first Indigenous-led issue of the ANZJA. Te […]

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ANZJA | Vol 22 Issue 1 2022 | Available online

ANZJA | Vol 22 Issue 1 2022 | The foreign and the out-of-place in Melbourne’s early modern collections Editors: Anne Dunlop and Cordelia Warr Link to Vol. 22.1 at Taylor and Francis  About this issue Edited by Anne Dunlop and Cordelia Warr the issue takes eleven objects in Melbourne collections to examine the concepts of foreignness and the out-of-place in the early modern world. The objects were made over a span of almost four centuries, from the 1400s into the 1700s, and in regions as far apart as England and the Philippines. They include manuscripts and sculptures, textiles, drawings, and prints. Some […]

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ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 21 Issue 2 2021 | Open Issue

ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 21 Issue 2 2021 | Open Issue Editors: Anita Archer, Christopher Marshall, David M. Challis Vol. 21.2 at Taylor and Francis Articles The War Itself: Cornelia Parker’s Official Election Art, Post-2016 Democracy and the Weaponisation of Social Media Kit Messham-Muir Silent Witnesses: Doris Salcedo and Blanchot Toby Juliff Raising the Spectre: Contemporary Art and Print Culture in the Aftermath of Colonialism Deidre Brollo Xerox Memory: Lindy Lee’s Photocopies Sophie Rose Frame-work: Borders and the Limits of Representation in Recent Paintings by Peter Adsett Mary Alice Lee Goitres, Growths, and Distortions: Rodin’s Balzac in Melbourne David […]

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Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Open Issue: 23.1

The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions to be a part of Issue 1, 2023. Submissions Due: 10 June 2022 Editor: Verónica Tello The editor seeks research papers that engage with critical debates and scholarly frameworks across art-historical and theoretical enquiry within local and global contexts. Articles must be between 5,000 and 7,000 words (including endnotes) and will be peer-reviewed. ANZJA is committed to expanding the vocabularies and epistemologies of art history and associated fields in alignment with progressive social movements. We especially encourage submissions from First Nations, culturally and linguistically diverse scholars and LGQBTQI+ scholars. See […]

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ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 21 Issue 1 2021 | Shifting the Ground: Rethinking Chinese Art

ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 21 Issue 1 2021 | Shifting the Ground: Rethinking Chinese Art Editors: Claire Roberts, Mark K. Erdmann, Genevieve Trail Link to Vol. 21.1 at Taylor and Francis  Articles The Role of Visual Evidence in a New Perspective on Chinese Art History: A Study of Ōmura Seigai’s Two Histories of Chinese Art Goto Ryoko (Translated by Olivier Krisher) Language and Chinese Art History Minyuan Hu Material Chineseness: Ink and Porcelain in Contemporary Art beyond National Borders Alex Burchmore The Absurd and the Surreal: Photographic Works of Deng Nan-guang and Chang Chao-tang as Artistic Self-Constructs of the […]

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ANZJA ARTICLE IN FOCUS | Artists, Institutions, Publics: Contemporary Responses to Conflict

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Issue 20.1, Special Issue: War, Art and Visual Culture Edited by Professor Kit Messham-Muir  and Dr Uroš Čvoro This Special Issue of the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art follows a year after the symposium titled War, Art and Visual Culture: Sydney (2019).  The project aims to consider the politics of addressing war in contemporary art and visual culture, particularly the potential for conflicts, compromises and complicity. This weeks article in focus is: Artists, Institutions, Publics: Contemporary Responses to Conflict, Kate Warren, Anthea Gunn and Mikala Tai Kate Warren, Anthea Gunn and Mikala Tai consider how different institutional contexts affect the creation and […]

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ANZJA Article in focus | Thunder Raining Poison: The Lineage of Protest Against Mid-century British Nuclear Bomb Tests in Central Australia 

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Issue 20.1, Special Issue: War, Art and Visual Culture Edited by Professor Kit Messham-Muir  andDr Uroš Čvoro This Special Issue of the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art follows a year after the symposium titled War, Art and Visual Culture: Sydney (2019).  The project aims to consider the politics of addressing war in contemporary art and visual culture, particularly the potential for conflicts, compromises and complicity. This weeks article in focus is: Thunder Raining Poison: The Lineage of Protest Against Mid–century British Nuclear Bomb Tests in Central Australia, Catherine Speck Catherine Speck discusses the truth-telling of Aṉangu artists dealing with the effects of secret atomic bomb tests in Australia from 1952-1963. Image Caption: Kunmanara Queama, Pitjantjatjara people, SA, b. 1947, Maralinga […]

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ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 20 Issue 2 2020 | Special Issue

ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 20 Issue 2 2020 | Open Issue Editors: Jane Eckett, Sheridan Palmer, Aneta Trajkoski and Ian McLean Link to Vol. 20.2 at Taylor and Francis here. Articles Marcel’s Blagues: Duchamp’s Linguistic Jokes Lyn Merrington The Case of Hypothetical Art: From Philosophy of Art to Contemporary Art Practice Jurij Selan George Gittoes in an Era of Post-Heroic, Hyper-Real Warfare Darren Jorgensen When Manufacturing Workers Make Sculpture: Creative Pathways in the Context of Australian Deindustrialisation Jesse Adams Stein Dignity and Futility: Art and Labour in a Post-Industrial World Grace McQuilten Indonesian Artivism: Layers of Performativity and Connectivity Edwin Jurriëns […]

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ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 20 Issue 1 2020 | EWar, Art and Visual Culture

ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 20 Issue 1 2020 | EWar, Art and Visual Culture Editors: Kit Messham-Muir and Uroš Čvoro Link to Vol. 20.1 at Taylor and Francis here. Articles Cruel Visions: Reflections on Artists and Atrocities Joanna Bourke Artists, Institutions, Publics: Contemporary Responses to Conflict Kate Warren, Anthea Gunn and Mikala Tai George Gittoes in an Era of Post-Heroic, Hyper-Real Warfare Darren Jorgensen Thunder Raining Poison: The Lineage of Protest Against Mid-century Catherine Speck Paradoxes of War Critique on Display: The Dresden Bundeswehr Deborah Ascher Barnstone Japanese Art in Australasia During the Second World War Richard Bullen and Tets […]

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Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art | Open Issue: 21.2

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Open Issue: 21.2 Submissions Due: 23 October, 2020 Editors: Dr Anita Archer, Dr David Challis and Associate Professor Christopher Marshall The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions to be a part of Issue 2, 2021. The issue will be edited by Dr Anita Archer, Research Coordinator of the ERCC (Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Contemporary Culture), Dr David Challis and Associate Professor Christopher Marshall, each are from the School of Culture and Communication an the University of Melbourne. The editors seek research papers that engage […]

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