The Avant-garde and its Patrons

The Development of Experimental Art in Brisbane c.1980 – 1988

Authors

  • Urszula Szulakowska University of Leeds

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1321816600001288

Keywords:

1980s Brisbane, experimental art-scene, conservative culture, isolated capital cities

Abstract

Brisbane in the 1980s provides a case study of how a small, but intensely self-conscious experimental art-scene could be created by a very few people marginalised within a conservative culture. This was a uniquely Australian phenomenon, possible only in a country of densely-populated, capital cities, isolated from each other by great distances.

Author Biography

  • Urszula Szulakowska, University of Leeds

    URSZULA SZULAKOWSKA is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the University of Leeds. Her book about Queensland experimental art during the 1970s and 1980s will be published by the Queensland Studies Centre later this year.

References

-

Downloads

Published

1997-04-01

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (1997)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Szulakowska, U. (1997). The Avant-garde and its Patrons: The Development of Experimental Art in Brisbane c.1980 – 1988. Queensland Review, 4(1), 18-30. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1321816600001288