Seeing the Inside

Bark Painting in Western Arnhem Land
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-0-19-823354-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 388 g

Seeing the Inside is the first detailed study of one of the world's great visual art traditions and its role in the society that produces it. The bark painting of Aboriginal artists in western Arnhem Land is the product of a unique tradition of many thousands of years' duration. In recent years it has attracted enormous interest in the rest of Australia and beyond, with the result that the artists, who live primarily as hunters in this relatively secluded region of northern Australia, now paint for sale to the world art market.

Though the richness and power of Aboriginal arts are now, belatedly, finding wide recognition, they remain insufficiently understood. In this thoroughly illustrated book Luke Taylor examines the creative methods of the bark painters and the cultural meaning of their work. He discusses, on the one hand, the arrangements which allow the artists to project their culture on to an international stage, and on the other, the continuing social and religious roles of their paintings within their own society. The result is a remarkable and fascinating picture of artistic creativity in a changing world.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kunstethnologie, Musikethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Indigene Kunst, Volkskunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction

- 2: The development of the market for bark paintings in western Arnhem Land

- 3: Kunwinjku social organization and land ownership

- 4: Apprenticeship and the social identity of artists

- 5: Themes and paintings in ceremonies

- 6: Formal components of bark paintings

- 7: Iconic representation

- 8: Transforming figures

- 9: The meaning of x-ray paintings

- 10: Metaphors and socialization

- Conclusion: Innovation and social reproduction

- Appendix: Glossary of Kunwinjku words

- Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Luke Taylor is a Senior Curator at the National Museum of Australia. He has worked for the Australian Federal Government's Review of the Aboriginal Artsa and Crafts Industry, and held a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. In 1995/6 he was a visiting scholar at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. He has published articles on Australian Aboriginal art and society, and he is co-editor of Marketing Aboriginal Art in the 1990s (Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1990).