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Tag: ian burn

Jarrod Zlatic

The Crank and Australian art history

I’m not exactly sure why I was invited by the un Extended editor-in-residence to write on the topic of The Crank in relation to the state of art history in Australia. But it might help to shed some light on a brief exchange I had with another sometimes-art-writer/editor that had left me perplexed; after some […]

Milly Mitchell-Anyon

From Time to Time

Burn, Ian. ‘Is Art History Any Use to Artists?’ In Dialogue: Writings in Art History, 1–14. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991. This essay has entered my life on several occasions, and every time I read it I interpret it slightly differently. Burn’s essay hypothesises that, fundamentally, there’s a disconnect between art making and the making […]