Legitimate landscapes: repositioning regional art production
This thesis employs art history and critical ethnography to examine contemporary art production in the South West of Western Australia. Responding to a paucity of publications and critique, and a claim the art scene is ‘folksy’ and ‘not up-to speed’ with metropolitan art scenes, I argue that ‘being...
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| description | This thesis employs art history and critical ethnography to examine contemporary art production in the South West of Western Australia. Responding to a paucity of publications and critique, and a claim the art scene is ‘folksy’ and ‘not up-to speed’ with metropolitan art scenes, I argue that ‘being regional’ is a legitimate position on its own terms and as part of a growing global tendency to recognises the validity of regional contexts and perspectives. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-484882017-02-09T03:07:55Z Legitimate landscapes: repositioning regional art production McGirr, Diana Rosemary This thesis employs art history and critical ethnography to examine contemporary art production in the South West of Western Australia. Responding to a paucity of publications and critique, and a claim the art scene is ‘folksy’ and ‘not up-to speed’ with metropolitan art scenes, I argue that ‘being regional’ is a legitimate position on its own terms and as part of a growing global tendency to recognises the validity of regional contexts and perspectives. 2016 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/48488 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | McGirr, Diana Rosemary Legitimate landscapes: repositioning regional art production |
| title | Legitimate landscapes: repositioning regional art production |
| title_full | Legitimate landscapes: repositioning regional art production |
| title_fullStr | Legitimate landscapes: repositioning regional art production |
| title_full_unstemmed | Legitimate landscapes: repositioning regional art production |
| title_short | Legitimate landscapes: repositioning regional art production |
| title_sort | legitimate landscapes: repositioning regional art production |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/48488 |