Publication Details Paperback, 120 images, including colour plates, 239 pp, 260 x 230 mm. ISBN: 9780909952020
Author and/or Editor name/s Edited by Ann Stephen
Author and/or Editor bio/s Ann Stephen’s curatorial career spans four decades in public and university museums. She joined Sydney University Museums as the senior curator of the University Art Gallery in 2009, and has been responsible for the University Art Collection and developing the art exhibition and publication program. As President, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (2011–14), Ann has been a mentor for early career academics as well as many colleagues in art history and art curatorship. She has an established national and international publishing record in modernism and conceptual art and in 2015 was invited to join the Scientific Committee of the European Network for Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. She has been awarded two ARC grants and many prizes for her academic work. She was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2009. Since 2014, she has been chair of Art Monthly Australasia.
Year of Publication 2021
Publisher Power Publications and Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney
Abstract “Light & Darkness is a revelation. The first project to explore the JW Power Collection of contemporary art in its new home at the University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum, this anthology and exhibition reveals many works not seen for decades. Under curator Ann Stephen’s deft editorial hand, some 70 works from the 1,500 in the Power Collection point to key directions – the wonderful luminal and kinetic works from the late 1960s; the diversity of the 1970s, ranging from Jasper Johns to On Kawara; the turn in the 1980s to collecting art from Australia and New Zealand. All these works are illuminated by fresh research, in probing essays showing that scholarship is the flame that sustains all museums.” – Julie Ewington, Independent writer, curator and broadcaster, Sydney. Former Head of Australian Art, QAGOMA, Brisbane.
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