Myers / Thomas Painting Culture

The Making of an Aboriginal High Art
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8416-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten

Reihe: Objects/Histories

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Myers, Fred R.

Thomas, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Prologue

Introduction: From Ethnoaesthetics to Art History

1. Truth or Beauty: The Revelatory Regime of Pintupi Painting

2. Practices of Painting: A Local History and a Vexed Intersection

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

4. Making a Market: Cultural Policy and Modernity in the Outback

5. Burned Out, Outback: Art Advisers Working between Two Worlds

6. The “Industry”: Exhibition Success and Economic Rationalization

7. After the Fall: In the Arts Industry

8. Materializing Culture and the New Internationalism

9. Performing Aboriginality at the Asia Society Gallery

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

11. Unsettled Business

12. Recontextualizations: The Traffic in Culture

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

Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fred R. Myers is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at New York University and President of the American Ethnological Society. He is the author of Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self; editor of The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture; and coeditor of The Traffic in Culture: Refiguring Anthropology and Art.