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.
Ã2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (498 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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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