Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art

This edited collection examines art resulting from cross-cultural interactions between Australian First Nations and non-Indigenous people, from the British invasion to today.

About the author

Sarah Scott is a lecturer at the Centre for Art History and Art Theory, School of Art and Design, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. She writes on non-Indigenous engagement with First Nations art and culture, art patronage, and the representation of Australian art overseas.
Helen McDonald is an art historian and an associate of the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Erotic Ambiguities: The Female Nude in Art (2001) and Patricia Piccinini: Nearly Beloved (2012). Her recent research focuses on Australian rock art and art about climate change.
Caroline Jordan is an art historian and adjunct honorary research officer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences in La Trobe University, Australia. She is the author of Picturesque Pursuits: Colonial Women Artists and the Amateur Tradition (2005) and recent articles in Australian Historical Studies and Gender and History.

Product details

• Assisted by: Sarah Scott (Editor), Helen McDonald (Editor), Jordan Caroline (Editor)
• Authors: Sarah (Australian National University Scott
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.01.2025
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9781032257389
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225738-9
• Pages: 222
• Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
• Subjects: Alice Springs, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, Anthropology, ART / Art & Politics, ART / Australian & Oceanian, Aboriginal art, History of art / art & design styles, Great Sandy Desert, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Art, Colonialism and imperialism, Art forms, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, The Arts: art forms, The arts: general topics, Australian art, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity, museum anthropology, Rio Tinto, Torres Strait Islander, collaborative curation, cultural repatriation, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, transculturation studies, Aboriginal material culture, indigenous art history, cross-cultural art collaboration research, South Australian Museum, McArthur River Mine, Sacred Aboriginal Site, Bill Onus, Ernabella Mission, Bark Painting, Possum Skin Cloaks, Aboriginal Protection Board, non-Indigenous Artist, De Pury, Eel Traps, Torres Strait Islander art, Barron River, Reverse Appropriation, Imants Tillers, Lil Lil, Tent Embassy, Papunya Tula Artists