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The trouble with the Blake Prize.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
SIR: Two things might be added to Patricia Anderson's incisive article "The Struggle to Keep Faith in the Blake Prize" (March 2008).
The first is that the chief reason for the hallowed status of the Blake Prize on the national art scene before the mid-1960s was that its regular travelling exhibition of finalists was the only annual show of contemporary Australian art seen in many cities. Indeed, through the 1950s the Blake's organisers seem to have consciously selected the exhibits with a view to presenting a mini-survey of the leading painters. That is why the exhibition achieved instant acclaim in Melbourne and Adelaide, for instance, where it was staged in the respective National Galleries.
The second is that through the 1950s and 1960s the Blake's judges assumed that religious art was necessarily Christian art. This explains why very ...
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- Magazine article from: Quadrant Anderson, Patricia March 1, 2008 700+ words
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Source: HighBeam Research, The trouble with the Blake Prize.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)