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The Avant-garde and its Patrons: the Development of Experimental Art in Brisbane c.1980 – 1988

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

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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.

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Urszula Szulakowska's book about Queensland experimental art during the 1970s and 1980s will be published by the Queensland Studies Centre later this year.Google Scholar