Anette Van den Bosch
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Adjunct Research Fellow
PhD University of Sydney 1990
(Thesis: The Art Market since 1940: A model of the relationships between key players and the interactions between aesthetic and financial values)
Previous Appointments
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Honorary Research Fellow 2006-2008, Centre for Leisure Management Research, Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer 1993–2006, Visual Arts, Asian Art and Film, School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies, Monash University
Research and Publications
My monograph, The Australian Art World: Aesthetics in a Global Market, is the first major study to trace a fifty-year history of Australian Art as a process of structural change determined by the integration of the market through the operations of the multinational auction houses Christies and Sotheby’s. It documented of the complexity of the influence from the United States that explains the generational career structure of Australian artists between the 1960s and 1990s. The book modelled the key players and relationships in an art world and their relationship to a global art market. It established a comparative model that I have used to research developing art worlds and markets in Vietnam and Malaysia.
My earlier co-edited book, Ghosts in the Machine: Women and Cultural Policy in Canada and Australia (1998) was a collaborative project with a leading Canadian cultural critic, Alison Beale. It documented debates in cultural policy in Australia and Canada in the 1980s and 1990s. These analyses are still relevant to current research in Malaysia and Vietnam where the debate about gender, identity and cultural policy are important.
My current research field was generated from my interest in the cultural impact of globalisation and the sociology of art worlds. The article, “Museums: Constructing a Public Culture in the Global Age” was published in January 2005 by Third Text, the most important international journal of cross-cultural and post-colonial writing in art. The research I completed from 2003 to 2008 in Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia is part of a developing Asian art history field, but more significantly it constitutes a new field in Asian arts management and cultural policy in which there has been little significant analysis to date.
I am one of a dozen scholars who have started to open up the new research field of post-war Vietnamese art. The Conference on Post Doi Moi Art in Vietnam at the Singapore Art Museum in May 2008 brought us all together for the first time from Vietnam, France, the United States and Australia. I have presented a number of invited conference papers and articles on Vietnam. As an art historian, a sizable proportion of my work was directed towards researching and curating exhibitions associated with artists and trends identified by me as significant new areas of study. I curated two new exhibitions in 2005, New Figuration in Vietnamese Painting and Sculpture with Tran Thi Huynh Nga which brought the work of five Vietnamese artists, and three of them to the Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield. In addition, I curated an exhibition in Australia on an artist of the Vietnamese Diaspora, Le Van Tai: Moonfall and Flowers.
Indigenous and Minorities Research, Art, Place and Cultural Tourism
In 2005 I contributed two chapters to the research project commissioned by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). Aboriginal Art Market: Intellectual Property Case Studies, Ruth Rentschler ed. Centre for Leisure Management CLMR Deakin University 2005. In 2006 I was awarded a Faculty of Business and Law Research Grant with Associate Professor Ruth Rentshchler. I undertook the field work interviews with gallery directors and Indigenous tourism specialists in Alice Springs and Uluru and all the coordination associated with field work. I also coordinated an ARC Discovery application 2007, “Indigenous Art, Place and Cultural Tourism”.
In writing and curating exhibitions on Vietnam I have researched the role of minority cultures in the Tai Nguyen, Truong Son Mountains, and the relationships with a group of contemporary Vietnamese artists whose art work shows a strong postcolonial trend. I also explore the influence of regional environments, and the relationship between cultural diversity and bio-diversity in chapters such as “New Directions in Contemporary Vietnamese Art’ in TK. Sabapathy (ed.) Post Doi Moi Art in Vietnam, University of Singapore and Singapore Art Museum 2009 (forthcoming).
Teaching and Supervision
My focus in teaching art history and film was on developing strong international content which enabled comparative cross-cultural perspectives with Australia. Cross-Cultural Art: Asian, American, and European, and Nature, Culture and Colonisation contributed to internationalising the curriculum. The Other Side of the Avant-Garde, was designed to focus on Women’s and Gender Studies. In Cross-Cultural Art I used the innovative approach of Third Text theory sources to examine contemporary art and address issues on a comparative basis, using up-to-date critical concepts of hybridity and diasporas. In Nature, Culture and Colonisation I used visual representations and their codes and conventions to examine power structures from the new theoretical perspective of eco-criticism.
BOOKS
Monograph - 100% Sole Author
1. The Australian Artworld: Aesthetics in a Global Market, (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, January 2005), 276 pages [ISBN 1 74114 455 8].
Co-Edited Book
2. Ghosts in the Machine: Women and Cultural Policy in Canada and Australia co-edited with Alison Beale, (Toronto: Garamond Press, 1998), 250 pages. [ ISBN 0-920059-29-5].
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
2. “Interactions between Australia and Japan: Art Artists and Aesthetics,” in: Transition: Changing Society and Art (Tokyo: AICA Japan Fumio Nanjo and Associates, 1999), pp.28-9.
3. “Art Audiences and Art Funding: contemporary relationships between art and business in Australia,” in: Art and Business: An International Perspective on Sponsorship (ed.) R. Martorella, (Praegar, Westport Connecticut, 1996), pp. 181-88 [ISBN-0275-95000-X.]
RESEARCH REPORTS
Aboriginal Art Market: Intellectual Property Case Studies, Ruth Rentschler ed. Centre for Leisure Management CLMR Deakin University 2005
Paper 2 The Aesthetics and Politics of the Aboriginal Art Market: An overview of its development, 52-66; and with Ruth Rentschler, Paper 3 The Aboriginal Art Market: Prices and Market Segmentation 67-109. These provided two of the five case studies in Aboriginal Art Market: Intellectual Property Case Studies.
REFERENCE BOOK CONTRIBUTION (2%)
1. Encylopaedia of Global Studies, Sage, 2009 entry ‘Global Aesthetics
2. Contributing Editor to The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought 1999 (eds), Allan Bullock and Stephen Tromley, London, Harper Collins. Articles on Art History, Museology, Commodification, the Gaze, and Simulacrum.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
1. “Art in Malaysia and Singapore: gateway to China and marketplace of ideas” in: Transcultural Studies: A Series in Interdiciplinary Research, Vol 1 Special Issue
Border Crossings: Interpreting Popular, Mass and Global Culture, Edited by Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover and Ana Deumert 2006. (15 pp) (Idyllwild: Charles Schlacks Jr. Publisher). ISSN 1930-6253
2. “The Malaysian Art World” Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management 3, 1, October 2005 pp.204-208 www artsman.journal.unisa.edu.au/
3. “Museums: Constructing a Public Culture in the Global Age” Third Text 19, 1 January 2005
4. “The Professional Visual Artist in Vietnam” Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management Vol. 2 Issue 2 December 2004 pp.108-114 University of South Australia ISSN 1449-1184 www artsman.journal.unisa.edu.au/
5. ‘Art, Artists, Art Markets: the Effects of Global Change’ Culture, Newsletter of the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association 17 (1): 1, 5-7. Autumn, 2002. J. American Sociological Association www.ibiblio.org/culture/
Journal Articles in press
“Professional Artists in Vietnam: Intellectual Property Rights, economic and cultural sustainability” Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society 2008-9
OTHER JOURNAL ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
13. Respect for Art: Visual Arts Administration and Management in China and the United States by Joan Jeffri and Yu Ding, Intellectual Property Publishing House, China 2007, ISBN 978-7-80198-664-1
Review for International Journal of Arts Management, IJAM 2008
Presentations, Invited and Paid Conference Papers, Publications
1. ‘Signs of grief, memory of violence and the suppression of freedom of expression in the work of three Vietnamese artists,’ Presented at the 17th Asian Studies Association of Australia Conference, ‘Is This the Asian Century?’ Monash Asia Institute, Melbourne 2008
2. “New Directions in Contemporary Vietnamese Art’ Post Doi Moi Conference, Singapore Art Museum, May 2008,
Publication: TK. Sabapathy (ed.) Post Doi Moi Art in Vietnam, Folio Art Anthology University of Singapore and Singapore Art Museum 2009 (forthcoming).
3.“The Impact of Censorship, Conflict and the Diaspora on Vietnamese Art History” with Dr. Boitran Huynh-Beattie, Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, Convergence, Committee of the International History of Art, CIHA 32nd Congress Melbourne University, Miegunyaii Press, June 2009
4. “Arts Practice and Cultural Sustainability: Artists’ Careers and the Market in Vietnam”, Second International Conference on Sustainable Heritage Development: Envitonmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Hanoi and Halong Bay 9-12th January 2006. Publisher Common Ground www.sustainabilityconference.com5. “The Potential of Art as Work in Vietnam,”
Conference: Cultures and technologies in Asia: The paradigm shifts, Mumbai February 2004
Publication: Cultures and technologies in Asia: The paradigm shifts Ed. Marika Vicziany Monash University Press 2004 ISBN: 1 876924 31 4
UNESCO Professional Association
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President, Australia, and International Board Member of AICA, Association des Internationale des Critiques d’Art, International Art Critics Association, a UNESCO affiliated organisation with its secretariat in Paris, 1994-2001;
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Chair of AICA International Membership Committee 2000.
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Member of International Board, AICA, with President, Kim Levin, developed new sections and conferences in Asia between 1996 and 2000.
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Administrator of UNESCO grant for Asian-Australian Critics exchange 1996-2000.
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Reports to UNESCO Office in Paris and Member of International Board.
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Biennale of Sydney, Asia-Pacific Triennale, Australian Perspecta between 1994 and 2000.