Rethinking Australias Art History - The Challenge of Aboriginal Art

This book aims to redefine Australiäs 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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Lowish, Susan (University of Melbourne) Lowish
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781032095417
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3209541-7
• No. of pages: 221
• Series: Studies in Art Historiography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, Australia, ART / History / General, Art of indigenous peoples, ART / Art & Politics, ART / Australian & Oceanian, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art