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June 27, 2012
In No More Provincialism: Art & Text in the Electronic Melbourne Art Journal Heather Barker and Charles Green argue that it was Paul Taylor and Art and Text that broke with the centre-periphery or dependency model of Australian art in the 1970s that had been developed in opposition to modernist formalism.
He relocated the visual art inside the field of mass cultural production, then with subcultures (the fashion, music, and art of the New Wave), and the New Wave artist placing signs in new relationships, re-interpreting the history of Modernist art ‘as a series of signs and as a style that can be quoted. The artist was not a creator or a visionary but a ‘producer’ or a ‘mixer’ who ‘originated nothing but tinkered furiously with pieces—pieces of thought or “theory” as much as aesthetic forms and mass cultural signs.
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