A D S Donaldson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6558499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A D S Donaldson |
| GIVEN NAMES | A D S |
| FAMILY NAME | Donaldson |
| SIGNATURE | DONALDSON A D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut Carnot ARTS |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Residencies Unreflected in Papunya
This literature review takes up two books: Residencies Reflected (2024), a collection of essays on artist residencies, edited by Imeli Kokko; and Dot, Circle & Frame: The Making of Papunya Art (2023) by John Kean. The review will argue that Kean's revisionist account of the “invention” of contemporary Aboriginal art at Papunya in Central Australia in 1971, which gives much more agency to the artists involved than previously, demonstrates that Pap…
The Myth of Heterosexuality
The 1961 Recent Australian Painting exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London is an important and much-discussed moment in Australian art history.It is when the idea of Australian art as "isolated" and "exotic" first became popularised in both British and Australian cultures.The prominent Australian art historian Bernard Smith criticised the idea, but in many ways his book Australian Painting, published the year after, repeated the assumpti…
The Origins of the Abbey
We want to begin by suggesting that art history has always been a matter of art colonies.Art colonies are places where artists live and work alongside each other.Sometimes they are associated with the teaching of art and art schools, but this is not always the case.On other occasions they involve shared workshops, for example in printmaking, but again this is not strictly speaking necessary.They can exist either in smaller outlying towns or villa…
Against provincialism
This article offers an analysis and critique of Terry Smith's well-known essay “The Provincialism Problem”. Against Smith's argument for the “subservience” of Australian art vis-a-vis American, we sketch a long history of Australian-American artistic interaction throughout the twentieth century, and indeed the involvement of many highly-placed Australian artists in American art. We suggest that from a “contemporary” perspective not only does a wh…
Against provincialism
This article offers an analysis and critique of Terry Smith's well-known essay “The Provincialism Problem”. Against Smith's argument for the “subservience” of Australian art vis-a-vis American, we sketch a long history of Australian-American artistic interaction throughout the twentieth century, and indeed the involvement of many highly-placed Australian artists in American art. We suggest that from a “contemporary” perspective not only does a wh…
Against provincialism
This article offers an analysis and critique of Terry Smith's well-known essay “The Provincialism Problem”. Against Smith's argument for the “subservience” of Australian art vis-a-vis American, we sketch a long history of Australian-American artistic interaction throughout the twentieth century, and indeed the involvement of many highly-placed Australian artists in American art. We suggest that from a “contemporary” perspective not only does a wh…
The Myth of Heterosexuality
The 1961 Recent Australian Painting exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London is an important and much-discussed moment in Australian art history.It is when the idea of Australian art as "isolated" and "exotic" first became popularised in both British and Australian cultures.The prominent Australian art historian Bernard Smith criticised the idea, but in many ways his book Australian Painting, published the year after, repeated the assumpti…
The Origins of the Abbey
We want to begin by suggesting that art history has always been a matter of art colonies.Art colonies are places where artists live and work alongside each other.Sometimes they are associated with the teaching of art and art schools, but this is not always the case.On other occasions they involve shared workshops, for example in printmaking, but again this is not strictly speaking necessary.They can exist either in smaller outlying towns or villa…
Residencies Unreflected in Papunya
This literature review takes up two books: Residencies Reflected (2024), a collection of essays on artist residencies, edited by Imeli Kokko; and Dot, Circle & Frame: The Making of Papunya Art (2023) by John Kean. The review will argue that Kean's revisionist account of the “invention” of contemporary Aboriginal art at Papunya in Central Australia in 1971, which gives much more agency to the artists involved than previously, demonstrates that Pap…
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American history (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Architecture (1 work)