Category Archives: ANZJA

ANJZA Throwback | John Baldessari’s Punishment Piece

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John Baldessari’s Punishment Piece Tara McDowell Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2019, Open Issue, vol.19, no.1, 53-69 Despite being one of the most canonical artworks of this period, Baldessari’s I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art has never received any extensive art historical attention, let alone any good old-fashioned formal analysis.iv In what follows, I aim to do just that, restoring the context and material processes of this work and looking closely at its afterlives in order to make it vivid, but also to allow its many permutations and reversals to emerge as attributes of an artwork that is deeply dialectical in […]

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Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Volume 21 Issue 1

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Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Volume 21 Issue 1 EOI Due: 31 March 2020 Final Submissions Due: 10 July 2020 Editors: Associate Professor Claire Roberts and Dr Mark Erdmann Reconfiguring the World: The Art of Greater China and its Diasporas This special issue of the ‘Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art’ seeks papers that examine the art of the Greater China region encompassing mainland China, Macao, Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as that of diasporic artists working in different contexts around the world. Greater China is understood as an active cultural space […]

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ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 19 Issue 2 2019 | Special Issue: Australian Rock Art in the Expanded Field

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ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 19 Issue 2 2019 | Special Issue: Australian Rock Art in the Expanded Field Editors: Susan Lowish and Robert Gunn Introduction – Susan Lowish and Robert Gunn Link to Vol. 19.2 at Taylor and Francis here. Articles Archaeological and Art Historical Appreciation of Rock Art: A Case Study from Nawarla Gabarnmang Susan Lowish and Robert Gunn Figure on a Sandstone Ground: Considering Brett Whiteley’s Rock Art Ursula K. Frederick ‘A New Kind of Film’: Performing Aboriginality in James Cant’s WirrittWirritt (1957) Sarah Scott Lucas Grogan and the Eroticism of Aboriginal Art Darren Jorgensen The Saint Sequence, Cudtheringa […]

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ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 19 Issue 1 2019 | Open Issue

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ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 19 Issue 1 2019 | Open Issue Edited by Ian McLean Michaela Bear explores the complex production processes, historical precedents and cross-cultural perspectives informing Lisa Reihana’s moving image work in Pursuit of Venus [infected]; Stefan Popescu and Aleksandr Andrews Wansbrough analyse the various media and familial transgressions enacted in Huck Botko’s abject Dessertumentary series; Catherine De Lorenzo situates the art historical importance of Ar_atjara, an exhibition held in Düsseldorf in 1993 of traditional and contemporary Aboriginal and Torre Strait Islander art, predominantly initiated and directed by Aboriginal people; Tara McDowell undertakes a spatial and temporal […]

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AAANZ Conference, Prizes, Journal: Thank You

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Last Friday saw the conclusion of a successful and rewarding Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference at the RMIT University School of Art in Melbourne. The Association would like to thank the RMIT Conference Co-convenors Marnie Badham and Daniel Palmer; Grace McQuilten; and Amy Spiers, the Conference Producer, for producing such an excellent and stimulating event. Gratitude is also due to the entire Conference Committee, and the many Conference Volunteers who worked tirelessly to ensure the smooth running of the event. The sheer number of speakers and delegates (the highest for any conference in the Association’s history), the […]

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ANZJA Call for Papers – Issue 2 2018

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Due to high demand, we’re pleased to announce that we will be publishing a second open issue of the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art in 2018.   Issue 2 for 2018 will be edited by Associate Professor Ann Elias, History and Theory of Contemporary Global Art, and Dr Stephen H. Whiteman, Senior Lecturer in Asian Art, both of the Department of Art History at the University of Sydney. The editors seek research papers that engage with critical debates and scholarly frameworks across art-historical and theoretical enquiry within local and global contexts, plus review essays evaluating publications and exhibitions. Articles must […]

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CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN ISSUE: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Issue 1, 2018

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CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN ISSUE: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Issue 1, 2018. Submissions deadline: 30 July 2017 Issue 1, 2018 Open Issue Issue editors: Professor Deborah Ascher Barnstone, (University of Technology, Sydney), and Dr Donna West Brett (University of Sydney). Journal aims and scope The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is published by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ). AAANZ is Australia’s professional body for art and design historians, arts writers, artists, students of art history and theory, and museum professionals. The journal is Australasia’s principal refereed art history journal. ANZJA […]

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ANZJA Call for Papers: Open Issue 1, 2017

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CALL FOR PAPERS Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art Issue 1, 2017 Open Issue Closing: 15 August 2016 Issue editors: Professor Mark Ledbury, University of Sydney, and Rachel Kent, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art is published by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. AAANZ is Australia’s professional body for art and design historians, arts writers, artists, students of art history and theory, and museum professionals. The Journal is Australasia’s principal refereed art history journal. The Journal is dedicated to the study of art history and its various emanations including art practice, […]

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