Rethinking Australias Art History - The Challenge of Aboriginal Art

Winner of the 2019 Art Association of Australia & New Zealand's Best Book Prize"Tracing the development of the category of ‘Aboriginal Art’ in the European imagination, Dr Lowish tackles one of the central questions confronting Australian art history and does this with originality and academic integrity. It is a very intelligent publication that is lucid in its expression and accessible to most readers. There is very solid and scrupulous scholarship that lies at the core of this exceptional publication."--AAANZ prize committee"The book will be valued by scholars of Aboriginal art, Aboriginal studies, Australian art history, the history and philosophy of science, and art historiography.The breadth of sources and the defined focus of the study do indeed allow for a rethinking of Australia’s art history. May it stimulate more research into the period from 1788 to 1929, challenge and refine current cannons on Aboriginal art, and provoke a lively debate within art history!"- Journal of Art Historiography I rmationen zum Autor Susan Lowish is Lecturer in Australian Art History at the University of Melbourne. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

Product details

• Authors: Susan Lowish, Susan (University of Melbourne) Lowish
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780815374176
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-7417-6
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Studies in Art Historiography; Studies in Art Historiography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Australia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, ART / History / General, Anthropology, Art of indigenous peoples, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / Historiography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, ART / Art & Politics, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, ART / Australian & Oceanian, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Art, Colonialism and imperialism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General