Practical Aesthetics: A Study in Understanding Real Events through Contemporary Art

该项目推进了实践美学的概念，以展示艺术如何直接有益于学术界和更广泛的社区，提供具体的技术，使我们能够理解和理解关键的社会和政治事件。它产生了一个展览，公共研讨会，一个有学生/国际参与的研讨会，以及一本书/文章，在国际框架内介绍澳大利亚艺术。该项目扩展了艺术史的学科基础，促进和促进艺术在其他学科中的使用，并在与国家重要性问题（包括边境管制，和解和环境灾难）有关的事件的辩论中使用。

This project advances the concept of practical aesthetics to demonstrate how art is of direct benefit to both the academic and wider community, furnishing concrete techniques that enable us to apprehend and understand key social and political events. It engenders an exhibition, public symposia, a workshop with student/international participation, and a book/articles, presenting Australian art in an international framework. The project extends the discipline base of art history, promoting and facilitating the use of art in other disciplines and in debates on events relating to issues of national importance (including border control, Reconciliation, and environmental disaster).