Conversations, insights and anecdotes : proceedings of the inaugural Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Symposium Centre of Contemporary Arts, Cairns, Queensland, 21 August 2009 / presented by Cairns Indigenus Art Fair and James Cook University ; editor, Dr. Steven Campbell
Published
Brisbane : Arts Queensland : Department of the Premier and Cabinet, [2009]
106 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm
Contents
Cracks in the terrain / Steven Campbell -- Keynote presentations: The artist's journey / Judy Watson -- Artistic thickets / Nicholas Rothwell -- Papers: The appropriation of Indigenous motif and its influence on contemporary arts and crafts -- Courageous conversations on Indigenous performing arts in Australia / Michelle Evans -- Cargo cult: the art world craze for Aboriginal art / Ian McLean -- Originality and representation: contemporary aesthetics and traditional continutiy in the work of Billy Missi and Arone Meeks / Russell Milledge -- How may an Indigenous artist's biography be written for a contemporary Australia? / Alec O'Halloran -- Australian Indigenous printmaking - the first 30 years / Theo Tremblay
Summary
Proceedings of the inaugural Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Symposium Centre of Contemporary Arts, Cairns, Queensland
