Art for the Country : : The Story of Victoria's Regional Art Galleries.

Art for the Country : : The Story of Victoria's Regional Art Galleries.

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Edgar, Don.
Place / Publishing House:Melbourne : : Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty, Limited,, 2019.
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Year of Publication:2019
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (498 pages)
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505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- PREFACE A Personal Discoveryof Art in the Country -- INTRODUCTION Times When the Arts Could Thrive -- CHAPTER 1 An Extraordinary Man -Ballarat Art Gallery, 1884 -- CHAPTER 2 Old Timers Wanting More - Bendigo Art Gallery, 1887 -- CHAPTER 3 Not the Archibald - Warrnambool Art Galleryand Museum, 1886/7 -- CHAPTER 4 Trying to Keep Up - Geelong Art Gallery, 1896 -- CHAPTER 5 Comfortable Castlemaine,1913/1931 -- CHAPTER 6 A Small Civic Start - Shepparton, 1936 -- CHAPTER 7 Some Early (Halting) Moves to Support theProvincial Galleries -- CHAPTER 8 Mildura - Intrigue,Community Conflictand Individual Drive -- CHAPTER 9 Getting the Galleries Together - A 'Reluctant' National Gallery -- CHAPTER 10 Hamilton - Squatter Legacies - Upstaging the Others?, 1961 -- CHAPTER 11 Benalla - Patronage in a Community Divided -- CHAPTER 12 Centralism and the Struggle for Control -- CHAPTER 13 Smaller Towns Seeking a Place at the Table -- CHAPTER 14 Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement, 1965 - What Qualifies as a Gallery? -- CHAPTER 15 Regionalism as a Guiding Concept -- CHAPTER 16 A New Constitution (RGAV), 1970 -- CHAPTER 17 Ambitious but Ambivalent- Westbrook and the NGV -- CHAPTER 18 Suburban Rivalry - McClelland Gallery, 1961 and Mornington Peninsula Gallery, 1969 -- CHAPTER 19 Gippsland Competitors - Sale, 1965 and Morwell, 1971 -- CHAPTER 20 It's Too Much Work - The Battle for an Executive Officer -- CHAPTER 21 Warrnambool -Cleaning with Ajax -- CHAPTER 22 Bendigo - Shaken, Not Stirred -- CHAPTER 23 Ballarat - Flagging Its Wares -- CHAPTER 24 Geelong - One Directionor Multiple Directors? -- CHAPTER 25 Hamilton - Political Favoritism and the Sandby Collection -- CHAPTER 26 The Smaller Galleries Hit Their Straps -- CHAPTER 27 Mildura Arts Centre, 1966 - Boot Him Out! -- CHAPTER 28 Geelong Arts Centre - Infighting in an Ugly Town. 
505 8 |a CHAPTER 29 New Beginnings, or the Beginning of the End? -- CHAPTER 30 The Galleries Today - Public Response and the Future -- Notes -- APPENDIX Public Galleries Under the PGAV in 2018 -- List of Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index. 
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