10.4225/03/592278118eb84
Susan Rothnie
Susan
Rothnie
A Collaborative Effort: How Collaboration and Collectivism in Australia in the Seventies Helped Transform Art into the Contemporary Era
Monash University
2017
1970s
Australian seventies period
visual art
Fredric Jameson
Aboriginal art
Performing Arts and Creative Writing not elsewhere classified
2017-05-22 05:33:04
Journal contribution
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/A_Collaborative_Effort_How_Collaboration_and_Collectivism_in_Australia_in_the_Seventies_Helped_Transform_Art_into_the_Contemporary_Era/5016581
The seventies period in Australia is often referred to as the “anything goes” decade. It is a label that gives a sense of the profusion of anti-establishment modes that emerged in response to calls for social and political change that reverberated around the globe around that time. As a time of immense change in the Australian art scene, the seventies would influence the development of art into the contemporary era. The period‟s diversity, though, has presented difficulty for Australian art historiography. Despite the flowering of arts activity during the seventies era—and proba-bly also because of it—the period remains largely unaccounted for by the Australian canon.