Rethinking Australia's Art History

The Challenge of Aboriginal Art
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8153-7417-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 254 mm x 190 mm, Gewicht: 770 g

Reihe: Studies in Art Historiography

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lowish, Susan (University of Melbourne)

Lowish, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Lowish is Lecturer in Australian Art History at the University of Melbourne.