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Rethinking Australia’s Art History
The Challenge of Aboriginal Art
Studies in Art Historiography Series
Author: Lowish Susan
Language: EnglishSubjects for Rethinking Australia’s Art History:
Keywords
Aboriginal Art; Australian Aboriginal Art; art history; Bark Painting; indigenous art; Indigenous Australians; primitivism; Australian Art History; anthropology; Glenelg River; Europe; Australian Art; Australia; Decorative Art; colonialism; archaeology; Primitive Art; evolutionism; George Grey; Christianity; Sir George Grey; monotheism; Pitt Rivers Collection; art and race; Dja Dja Wurrung; Intercolonial Exhibition; Baldwin Spencer; North West Central Queensland Aborigines; Grosse’s Work; Horn Expedition; Boomerangs; Pitt Rivers Museum; Rock Drawings; Baudin’s Expedition; Northern Tribes; Australian Aboriginal People; Baillieu Library
Publication date: 06-2021
· 17.4x24.6 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 06-2018
· 17.4x24.6 cm · Hardback
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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.
Introduction 1. Writing a History of Encounters 2. Exploration and ‘Discovery’ 3. Searching for the Origin of Art 4. Seeing the Art of the First Australians 5. Evolutionists and Australian Aboriginal Art 6. ‘Aboriginal Art’ in the Writings of Baldwin Spencer 7. Collecting and Exhibiting: the Dawn of ‘Primitive Art’ Conclusion
Susan Lowish is Lecturer in Australian Art History at the University of Melbourne.
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