The Making of Indigenous Australian Contemporary Art

The Making of Indigenous Australian Contemporary Art
Author: Marie Geissler
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2020-09
Genre: Bark painting
ISBN: 9781527555464

This publication brings together existing research as well as new data to show how Arnhem Land bark painting was critical in the making of Indigenous Australian contemporary art and the self-determination agendas of Indigenous Australians. It identifies how, when and what the shifts in the reception of the art were, especially as they occurred within institutional exhibition displays. Despite key studies already being published on the reception of Aboriginal art in this area, the overall process is not well known or always considered, while the focus has tended to be placed on Western Desert acrylic paintings. This text, however represents a refocus, and addresses this more fully by integrating Arnhem Land bark painting into the contemporary history of Aboriginal art. The trajectory moves from its understanding as a form of ethnographic art, to seeing it as conceptual art and appreciating it for its cultural agency and contemporaneity.

The Making of Indigenous Australian Contemporary Art

The Making of Indigenous Australian Contemporary Art
Author: Marie Geissler
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2021-01-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1527564274

This publication brings together existing research as well as new data to show how Arnhem Land bark painting was critical in the making of Indigenous Australian contemporary art and the self-determination agendas of Indigenous Australians. It identifies how, when and what the shifts in the reception of the art were, especially as they occurred within institutional exhibition displays. Despite key studies already being published on the reception of Aboriginal art in this area, the overall process is not well known or always considered, while the focus has tended to be placed on Western Desert acrylic paintings. This text, however represents a refocus, and addresses this more fully by integrating Arnhem Land bark painting into the contemporary history of Aboriginal art. The trajectory moves from its understanding as a form of ethnographic art, to seeing it as conceptual art and appreciating it for its cultural agency and contemporaneity.

Indigenous Archives

Indigenous Archives
Author: Darren Jorgensen
Publisher: Apollo Books
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2017
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781742589220

The archive is a source of power. It takes control of the past, deciding which voices will be heard and which won't, how they will be heard and for what purposes. Indigenous archivists were at work well before the European Enlightenment arrived and began its own archiving. Sometimes at odds, other times not, these two ways of ordering the world have each learned from, and engaged with, the other. Colonialism has been a struggle over archives and its processes as much as anything else.The eighteen essays by twenty authors investigate different aspects of this struggle in Australia, from traditional Indigenous archives and their developments in recent times to the deconstruction of European archives by contemporary artists as acts of cultural empowerment. It also examines the use of archives developed for other reasons, such as the use of rainfall records to interpret early Papunya paintings. Indigenous Archives is the first overview of archival research in the production and understanding of Indigenous culture. Wide-ranging in its scope, it reveals the lively state of research into Indigenous histories and culture in Australia.

Everywhen

Everywhen
Author: Henry F. Skerritt
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300214707

"This publication accompanies the exhibition Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 5 through September 18, 2016."

Painting Culture

Painting Culture
Author: Fred R. Myers
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2002-12-16
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780822329497

DIVThe history of the Australian Aboriginal painting movement from its local origins to its career in the international art market./div

Rethinking Australia’s Art History

Rethinking Australia’s Art History
Author: Susan Lowish
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2018-05-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351049976

This book aims to redefine Australia’s earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category "Aboriginal art," tracing the term’s use through published literature in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Susan Lowish reveals how the idea of "Aboriginal art" developed in the European imagination, manifested in early literature, and became a distinct classification with its own criteria and form. Part of the larger story of Aboriginal/European engagement, this book provides a new vision for an Australian art history reconciled with its colonial origins and in recognition of what came before the contemporary phenomena of Aboriginal art.

The Australian Art Field

The Australian Art Field
Author: Tony Bennett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-05-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0429590008

This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to take stock of the frictions generated by a tumultuous time in the Australian art field and to probe what the crises might mean for the future of the arts in Australia. Specific topics include national and international art markets; art practices in their broader social and political contexts; social relations and institutions and their role in contemporary Australian art; the policy regimes and funding programmes of Australian governments; and national and international art markets. In addition, the collection will pay detailed attention to the field of indigenous art and the work of Indigenous artists. This book will be of interest to scholars in contemporary art, art history, cultural studies, and Indigenous peoples.

Double Desire

Double Desire
Author: Ian McLean
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2014-11-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1443871338

Double Desire challenges the tendency by critics to perpetuate an aesthetic apartheid between Indigenous and Western art. The double desire explored in this book is that of the divided but also amplified attractions that occur between cultural traditions in places where both indigenous and colonial legacies are strong. The result, it is argued, produces imaginative transcultural practices that resist the assimilation or acculturation of Indigenous perspectives into the dominant Western mod...

Ancestral Modern

Ancestral Modern
Author: Pamela McClusky
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300180039

A fascinating look at Australian Aboriginal art over the past four decades, highlighting millennia-old artistic traditions

The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections

The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections
Author: Nicolas Peterson
Publisher: Academic Monographs
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0522855687

This volume of original essays brings together, for the first time, histories of the making and of the makers of most of the major Indigenous Australian museum collections. These collections are a principal source of information on how Aboriginal people lived in the past. Knowing the context in which any collection was created-the intellectual frameworks within which the collectors were working, their collecting practices, what they failed to collect, and what Aboriginal people withheld-is vital to understanding how any collection relates to the Aboriginal society from which it was derived. Once made, collections have had mixed fates: some have become the jewel of a museum's holdings, while others have been divided and dispersed across the world, or retained but neglected. The essays in this volume raise issues about representation, institutional policies, the periodisation of collecting, intellectual history, material culture studies, Aboriginal culture and the idea of a 'collection'.