Title Painting culture : the making of an aboriginal high art / Fred R. Myers

Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 410 pages) : illustrations (some color) Series Objects/histories Objects/histories. Contents Introduction: From ethnoaesthetics to art history -- Truth or beauty: the revelatory regime of a Pintupi painting -- Practices of painting: a local history and a vexed intersection -- The aesthetic function and the practice of Pintupi painting: a local art history -- Making a market: cultural policy and modernity in the outback -- Burned out, outback: art advisers working between two worlds -- The "industry": exhibition success and economic rationalization -- After the fall: in the arts industry -- Materializing culture and the new internationalism -- Performing aboriginality at the Asia Society Gallery -- Postprimitivism: lines of tension in the making of aboriginal high art -- Unsettled business -- Recontextualizations: the traffic in culture -- Appendix: A short history of Papunya Tula exhibition, 1971-1985 Summary The history of the Australian Aboriginal painting movement from its local origins to its career in the international art market Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-389) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Art, Pintupi -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.) Pintupi (Australian people) -- Material culture -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.) Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.) -- Marketing Acrylic painting -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.) -- Marketing Art as an investment. Cultural property -- Protection -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.) ART -- History -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Art as an investment Art, Pintupi Cultural property -- Protection Schilderkunst. Aborigines. Kunstreceptie. Pintupi (peuple d'Australie) -- Culture matérielle -- Australie. Peinture aborigène d'Australie -- Australie. Peinture acrylique -- Australie. Art comme valeur de placement. Pintupi people (C10) (NT SF52-11) Enterprises - Arts and crafts Art - Artists 20.56 art of Australia, New-Zealand and Oceania. Aborigines Malerei Soziokultureller Wandel Western Australia -- Western Desert Papunya (South Central NT SF52-16) Western Desert (WA SF51, SF52, SG51, SG52) Aborigines. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822384168 0822384167

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