Edited by Terry Smith

Why support contemporary art? What role does art play in defining cultural values? How does today's Australia measure up in terms of cultural giving? What international models exist for private support of contemporary art in public spaces? These questions and many more are answered in Contemporary Art and Philanthropy, a book of papers given by key cultural players in the contemporary art scene at a form held at Sherman Galleries. After twenty years launching the careers of artists such as Tim Storrier and Mike Parr, Gene Sherman has bowed out of the commercial art trade to establish a not-for-profit foundation to promote contemporary art, the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation.

Pub Date: 2008 ISBN: PAPER:    0-86840-951-0    978-0-86840-951-1 Price: Paper: $22.00s Subject Listing: Philanthropy Bibliographic information: 250 pp., 6 x 9 in. Distributed for: UNSW Press Territorial rights: North American rights only