TY - JOUR
T1 - After McCahon at Auckland City Art Gallery
T2 - Canonisation and the Market in the 1980s
AU - Parlane, Anna
N1 - MDTHM_NA
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Can New Zealand postmodernism be described as a post-McCahon condition? Curator Christina Barton’s exhibition after McCahon: some recent configurations in art (1989), at Auckland City Art Gallery, was a critical response to McCahon’s canonisation, registering internal diversity within an institution deeply invested in this status. Strategically invoking McCahon’s name enabled Barton to smuggle a group of younger artists into ACAG’s exhibition programme. The artists in After McCahon explored poststructuralist theory, an expansion of institutional critique, post-punk practices and decolonial politics. These discourses of the 1980s supported the production of works dripping with postmodern irony and acutely conscious of the institutional authority amplifying McCahon’s voice and certifying his blue-chip status.
AB - Can New Zealand postmodernism be described as a post-McCahon condition? Curator Christina Barton’s exhibition after McCahon: some recent configurations in art (1989), at Auckland City Art Gallery, was a critical response to McCahon’s canonisation, registering internal diversity within an institution deeply invested in this status. Strategically invoking McCahon’s name enabled Barton to smuggle a group of younger artists into ACAG’s exhibition programme. The artists in After McCahon explored poststructuralist theory, an expansion of institutional critique, post-punk practices and decolonial politics. These discourses of the 1980s supported the production of works dripping with postmodern irony and acutely conscious of the institutional authority amplifying McCahon’s voice and certifying his blue-chip status.
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U2 - 10.26686/jnzs.v0iNS31.6679
DO - 10.26686/jnzs.v0iNS31.6679
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099252138
VL - 2020
SP - 72
EP - 94
JO - Journal of New Zealand Studies
JF - Journal of New Zealand Studies
SN - 1176-306X
IS - NS31
ER -