Re-Visioning Arts and Cultural Policy
Current Impasses and Future Directions
Table of Contents
Preliminary Pages
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Chapter 1. The Conceptual ambivalence of art and culture
Chapter 2. Historical phases in arts and cultural policy-making in Australia
Competing Models of Australian Cultural Policy
Colonial Cultural Policies
Post-Federation Cultural Policies
Post World War II Developments
The Golden Years?
Winds of Change
Casting a ‘Creative Nation’
An Alternative Vision for the Arts
Cultural Policy for the New Millennium
The Major Performing Arts Sector Spearhead Policy About-Face
From Incremental Creep to Interventionary Strategies
Chapter 3. The convergence of arts and cultural policy
Re-Visioning ‘Culture’
Instrumentalism and Sustainability
Reconciling Complex Culture with Cultural Engagement
Chapter 4. International trends in arts and cultural production and consumption
Cultural Consumption
Australia
Canada
Creative Economies
Chapter 5. How can cultural sub-sectors respond? Three indicative case studies
Micro-study of museums
Micro-study of indigenous arts and cultural policy
Micro-study of circus
Chapter 6. Managing creativity and cultivating culture
Today’s Challenges
The Drip-feed of Government Support
Sustainable versus Non-sustainable Arts and Cultural Sub-sectors
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Policy Models
Should Arts and Cultural Policy be a Niche Portfolio or a Broad Governmental Responsibility?
Bibliography
Appendix A. Typology of artforms by characteristics of sector
Appendix B. Key moments in Australian arts and cultural policy development
Major Events In Australian Cultural Policy
Appendix C. Models of cultural policy
Appendix D. Definitions of cultural policy
Appendix E. The objectives of cultural policy
Appendix F. Government expenditure (Commonwealth, state and local) on the arts in Australia ($ million)
Appendix G. Summary of major inquiries into and reviews of Australian arts and cultural sectors
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The Crafts in Australia. Volume 1. Report
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Appendix G.2. Industries Assistance Commission. 1976.
Assistance to the Performing Arts.
Canberra: AGPS.
Appendix G.3. House of Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure (Leo McLeay, chair). 1986.
Patronage, Power and the Muse: Inquiry into Commonwealth Assistance to the Arts.
Canberra: Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Appendix G.4. Department of Communications and the Arts. 1994
Creative Nation: Commonwealth Cultural Policy.
Canberra: AGPS.
Appendix G.5.
Review of the Australian Film Industry
(David Gonski, chair) 1997. Canberra: DCITA.
Appendix G.6. Major Performing Arts Inquiry (Helen Nugent, chair). 1999.
Securing the Future. Major Performing Arts. Final Report
Sydney: Australia Council.
Appendix G.7. Australia Council. 2000.
Australians and the Arts. A Report to the Australia Council from Saatchi & Saatchi Australia. Overview
. Sydney: Australia Council.
Appendix G.8. Cultural Ministers Council. 2002.
The Report to Ministers on an Examination of the Small to Medium Performing Arts Sector
. Canberra: DCITA.
Appendix G.9. Report of the Contemporary Visual Arts and Crafts Inquiry (Rupert Myer, chair) 2002. Canberra: DCITA.
Appendix G.10.
Review of the National Museum of Australia. Its Exhibitions and Public Programs
(John Carroll, chair). 2003. A Report to the Council of the National Museum of Australia. Canberra: DCITA.
Appendix G.11. Review of Australia’s Symphony and Pit Orchestras (James Strong, chair). 2005.
A New Era – Orchestras Review Report
Canberra: DCITA.
Appendix G.12. The Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.
Indigenous Art, Securing the Future: Australia’s Indigenous visual arts and craft sector
(Senator Alan Eggleston, Chair) (June 2007). Canberra, The Senate.