Category Archives: ANZJA

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

April 16, 2021ANZJA

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 […]

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

March 5, 2021ANZJA

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 […]

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

February 19, 2021ANZJA

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 […]

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

August 14, 2020ANZJA

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 […]

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

July 3, 2020ANZJA, Call for Papers

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 […]

ANJZA Throwback | John Baldessari’s Punishment Piece

May 1, 2020ANZJA

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 […]

Obituary | Donald Brook (1927 – 2018)

March 13, 2020ANZJA, News

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

February 21, 2020ANZJA, Call for Papers

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 […]

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

January 17, 2020ANZJA

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 […]

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

September 6, 2019ANZJA

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 […]