Rethinking Australia’s Art History

The Challenge of Aboriginal Art

Susan Lowish (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

221 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-09541-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Art Historiography
Zusatzinfo	18 Halftones, color; 43 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, color; 43 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	1-032-09541-5 / 1032095415
ISBN-13	978-1-032-09541-7 / 9781032095417
Zustand	Neuware