Ian Burn by Ann Stephen - ISBN: 9783753304236
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Beyond art: activist, critic, artist, shaping history’s future impact.

Ian Burn

Collected Writings 1966–1993

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    776 pages

  • Release Date

    30 April 2024

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Summary

‘A sense of art history is part of the critical basis on which artists construct ‘a future’ of art. But the question is, which sense of art history will be shaping that future? Art history has always been far too important to be left up to art historians.’ - Ian Burn, 1982

Ian Burn has been described as many things: an activist, a trade-unionist, a journalist, an art critic, a curator and an art historian - or, as he once described himself in a moment of self-deprecating alienation, ‘…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9783753304236
ISBN-10:3753304239
Author:Ann Stephen
Publisher:Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
Imprint:Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:776
Release Date:30 April 2024
Weight:1.40kg
Dimensions:48mm x 237mm x 121mm
About The Author

Ann Stephen

Ann Stephen is Senior Curator, University Art Collection, at the University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wang Museum. She was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2009 and served as president of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand from 2011 to 2014. Since 2014 she has been chair of Art Monthly Australasia.

Contributors: Art & Language, Adrian Piper, Paul Wood, Allan Sekula, and Mel Ramsden

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