Painting Culture The Making of an Aboriginal High Art

Name: Painting Culture The Making of an Aboriginal High Art
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ISBN: 9780822329329

ISBN-10: 0822329328

ISBN-13: 9780822329329

Edition: 2002

Authors: Fred R. Myers

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This history of the Australian Aboriginal painting movement looks at the way the paintings represent Aboriginal people and their culture, and how their heritage is translated into exchangeable values.

Book details

List price: $119.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 12/16/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 440
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Prologue


Introduction: From Ethnoaesthetics to Art History



Truth or Beauty: The Revelatory Regime of Pintupi Painting



Practices of Painting: A Local History and a Vexed Intersection



The Aesthetic Function and the Practice of Pintupi Painting: A Local Art History



Making a Market: Cultural Policy and Modernity in the Outback



Burned Out, Outback: Art Advisers Working between Two Worlds



The "Industry": Exhibition Success and Economic Rationalization



After the Fall: In the Arts Industry



Materializing Culture and the New Internationalism



Performing Aboriginality at the Asia Society Gallery



Postprimitivism: Lines of Tension in the Making of Aboriginal High Art



Unsettled Business



Recontextualizations: The Traffic in Culture


Appendix: A Short History of Papunya Tula Exhibition, 1971-1985


Notes


References


Index