A secret history of Australian art / Rex Butler
- Bib ID:
- 2080053
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Butler, Rex
- Description:
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- St Leonards, N.S.W. : Craftsman House Fine Art Publishing, 2002
- 152 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
- ISBN:
- 1877004219 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Offers insight into what a critic does and introduces issues of interest in contemporary Australian art, such themes as the problem of irony in post-modern art, the relation of art to everyday life and recent post-colonial approaches in Australian art history and Aboriginal art, illustrated with case studies.
- Full contents:
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- Lecture 1. Camp: The rise and fall of the smile; The case of Michael Stevenson
- Lecture 2. The Real: 'Every Day', the task of mourning; The case of Dale Frank; The case of Richard Dunn
- Lecture 3. Abstraction: The anamorphic monochrome; The case of John Nixon
- Lecture 4. The Feminine: Radical revisionism; The case of Merilyn Fairskye
- Lecture 5. Post-Colonialism: Australian art history and revisionism; The case of Augustus Earle
- Lecture 6. Aboriginality: 'Bright Shadows': art, aboriginality and aura; The case of Kathleen Petyarre.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Art -- Australia -- History
- Art criticism -- Australia
- Art - Theory and criticism
- Art - Artists - Non-Indigenous
- Social identity - Aboriginality
- Race relations - Representation - Art
- Art - Art motifs - Abstract
- Art - Economic aspects - Markets - Market places
- Art - Aesthetics
- Art - Painting
- Art - Artists
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2002
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