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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art / Post-Medium

We now co-publish Australia's premier refereed art history journal with the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. Our first issue investigates the role of the medium today, when artists routinely work in and across different media. References to our current 'post-medium condition' have become ubiquitous and the old ideal of medium-specificity is firmly identified with high modernism. Do today's post-medium practices demonstrate the redundancy of medium as a category for understanding art, or is medium still crucial to aesthetic judgement? Indeed, do post-medium practices mark a return to an earlier form of modernism? This issue of the Journal examines a wide range of critical positions and artistic practices which focus on the question of the medium in art. It features essays by Diarmuid Costello on Jeff Wall and Gerhard Richter, by Rosemary Hawker on Gerhard Richter, by Donna McColm on Morris Louis, and by Toni Ross on Andrea Zittel, an interview with French philosopher Jacques Ranciere, a pictorial by Berlin painter Katharina Grosse, and book and exhibition reviews. Jointly published with the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. / $20