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Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Loureide Biddle is Director of Visual Anthropology & Visual Culture and Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Breasts, Bodies, Canvas: Central Desert Art as Experience. Klappentext Jennifer Loureide Biddle is Director of Visual Anthropology & Visual Culture and Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Breasts, Bodies, Canvas: Central Desert Art as Experience.¿ Zusammenfassung In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle interrogates the avant-garde art of Aboriginal communities in the Australian desert! showing how it is an act of survival in the face of state occupation and a means to revive at-risk vernacular languages and cultural heritages. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. The Imperative to Experiment 1 1. Humanitarian Imperialism 21 Part I. Biliteracies 2. Tangentyere Artists 41 3. June Walkutjukurr Richards 77 4. Rhonda Unurupa Dick 91 Part II. Hapticities 5. Tjanpi Desert Weavers 109 6. Warnayaka Art: Yurlpa 139 7. Yarrenyty Arltere Artists 159 Part III. Happenings 8. Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route 181 9. The Warburton Arts Project 197 Epilogue: (Not) a "Lifestyle Choice" 217 Notes 221 Further Resources 233 References 235 Index 257
