Painting culture : the making of an aboriginal high art

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Main Author: Myers, Fred R. 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2002
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: From Ethnoaesthetics to Art History
  • 1. Truth or Beauty: The Revelatory Regime of Pintupi Painting
  • 2. Practices of Painting: A Local History and a Vexed Intersection
  • 3. The Aesthetic Function and the Practice of Pintupi Painting: A Local Art History
  • 4. Making a Market: Cultural Policy and Modernity in the Outback
  • 5. Burned Out, Outback: Art Advisers Working between Two Worlds
  • 6. The "Industry": Exhibition Success and Economic Rationalization
  • 7. After the Fall: In the Arts Industry
  • 8. Materializing Culture and the New Internationalism
  • 9. Performing Aboriginality at the Asia Society Gallery
  • 10. Postprimitivism: Lines of Tension in the Making of Aboriginal High Art
  • 11. Unsettled Business
  • 12. Recontextualizations: The Traffic in Culture
  • App. A Short History of Papunya Tula Exhibition, 1971-1985