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Names

Name PrimaryPost-object and Documentation Collection

IDs

ID Urihttp://www.flinders.edu.au/artmuseum/collections/highlights/post-object-and-documentation-collection.cfm

Descriptions

Brief DescriptionThe Post-object and Documentation Collection is one of the most comprehensive national collections that documents conceptual art making in the 1960s and 1970s.

Full DescriptionInitiated by one of Australia's leading theorists of conceptual art, Donald Brook (now Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at Flinders University and former art critic of The Sydney Morning Herald and Nation Review), and supported by the University’s Chancellor’s Art Fund, the collection features some of Australia's best known and most innovative artists such as Aleks Danko, Imants Tillers and Tim Burns. The collection also includes recordings of performances by Mike Parr, Stelarc and Ulay and Marina Abramovic, made onsite at the Experimental Art Foundation.

AccessContact Nic Brown, Collections Manager: nic.brown@flinders.edu.au

Dates

Date Record Updated2012-11-21 16:31

Date Created in MME2012-11-21 15:59