Sacred Exchanges - Images in Global Context

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-14880-1
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 380 g

Reihe: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

As the international art market globalizes the indigenous image, it changes its identity, status, value, and purpose in local and larger contexts. Focusing on a school of Australian Aboriginal painting that has become popular in the contemporary art world, Robyn Ferrell traces the influence of cultural exchanges on art, the self, and attitudes toward the other.

Aboriginal acrylic painting, produced by indigenous women artists of the Australian Desert, bears a superficial resemblance to abstract expressionism and is often read as such by viewers. Yet to see this art only through a Western lens is to miss its unique ontology, logics of sensation, and rich politics and religion. Ferrell explores the culture that produces these paintings and connects its aesthetic to the brutal environmental and economic realities of its people. From here, she travels to urban locales, observing museums and department stores as they traffic interchangeably in art and commodities.

Ferrell ties the history of these desert works to global acts of genocide and dispossession. Rethinking the value of the artistic image in the global market and different interpretations of the sacred, she considers photojournalism, ecotourism, and other sacred sites of the western subject, investigating the intersection of modern art and postmodern culture. She ultimately challenges the primacy of the "European gaze" and its fascination with sacred cultures, constructing a more balanced intercultural dialogue that deemphasizes the aesthetic of the real championed by western philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferrell, Robyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Indigene Kunst, Volkskunst
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kunstethnologie, Musikethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsList of PhotographsWriting on ArtArtUtopiaDreamingAbstractionStriking ColorThe Real Power of ColorHow Painting BeganCultureGlobal Art, Local KnowledgeThe Idea of the MuseumIn TranslationA White ThingImage LogicPhotojournalismGenderStolen CultureLitte Children Are SacredMum's the WordCrisis in RepresentationRace and GenderLawCommon LawFeeling for JusticeApartheidDiscoveryRadical DifferenceEmily Inc.ReferencesIndex

Leseproben

Read an excerpt from the chapter, >Art.

Über Autor(innen)

Robyn Ferrell is a research associate in the Gender and Cultural Studies Department at the University of Sydney and has taught at the University of Melbourne, Macquarie University, and the University of Tasmania. She has also held visiting research positions at the London School of Economics and the University of Western Sydney. She is the author of Copula: Sexual Technologies, Reproductive Powers, Genres of Philosophy, and Passion in Theory: Conceptions of Freud and Lacan.