Abstract
This essay examines the conditions of Scotland’s visual arts in the 1960s focussing upon events in the capital city of Edinburgh. It contests issues of ‘core and periphery’ through a critique of the idea of ‘provincialism’. In exploring the relationship between the academic art of the period and the febrile ‘counter-culture’ it evidences the potential for radical, internationally relevant discourses on the nature of visual culture to emerge in ‘marginal’ locales. This sense of a hybrid culture, rooted within a given community and artistic tradition yet embracing the most dynamic tropes of the international avant-garde, relocates creative adventure away from geo-political centres and towards a metaphysic of the visual imagination.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Scottish Sixties |
| Subtitle of host publication | Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? |
| Editors | Eleanor Bell, Linda Gunn |
| Place of Publication | Netherlands |
| Publisher | Rodopi |
| Pages | 285-306 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-94-012-0980-9 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-90-420-3726-7 |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2013 |
Keywords
- Scotland, visual art, 1960s, provincialism, the Academy, avant-gardism, ‘counter-culture’, hybridity.