Painting culture : the making of an aboriginal high art / Fred R. Myers
- Bib ID:
- 709655
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Myers, Fred R., 1948-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Description:
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 2002
- xvii, 410 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0822329328
- 0822329492
- Series:
- Objects (histories)
- Summary:
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This text tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic dot paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments xi
- Prologue xv
- Introduction: From Ethnoaesthetics to Art History 1
- 1 Truth or Beauty: The Revelatory Regime of Pintupi Painting 17
- 2 Practices of Painting: A Local History and a Vexed Intersection 54
- 3 The Aesthetic Function and the Practice of Pintupi Painting:
- A Local Art History 80
- 4 Making a Market: Cultural Policy and Modernity in the Outback 120
- 5 Burned Out, Outback: Art Advisers Working between Two Worlds 147
- 6 The "Industry": Exhibition Success and Economic Rationalization 184
- 7 After the Fall: In the Arts Industry 209
- 8 Materializing Culture and the New Internationalism 230
- 9 Performing Aboriginality at the Asia Society Gallery 255
- 10 Postprimitivism: Lines of Tension in the Making of Aboriginal
- High Art 277
- 11 Unsettled Business 315
- 12 Recontextualizations: The Traffic in Culture 342
- Appendix: A Short History of Papunya Tula Exhibition, 1971-1985 363
- Notes 365
- References 373
- Index 391.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Art, Pintupi -- Western Australia -- Western Desert
- Pintupi (Australian people) -- Material culture -- Western Australia -- Western Desert
- Painting, Australian aboriginal -- Western Australia -- Western Desert -- Marketing
- Acrylic painting -- Western Australia -- Western Desert -- Marketing
- Art as an investment
- Cultural property -- Protection -- Western Australia -- Western Desert
- Pintupi people (C10) (NT SF52-11)
- Enterprises - Arts and crafts
- Art - Artists
- Papunya (South Central NT SF52-16)
- Western Desert (WA SF51, SF52, SG51, SG52)
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