ABSTRACT
How far and in what ways have the ‘rules of art’ through which, according to Pierre Bourdieu, the autonomy of art values was once secured been nullified or put to other uses by the increased commercialization of art within Australia and internationally? After surveying the key policy, institutional and commercial changes affecting the production, circulation and consumption of art in Australia and internationally, the chapter explores the distinctive ways in which Indigenous art practices have inflected the operation of the ‘rules of art’ within the Australian art field.
