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Author Myers, Fred R., 1948- author.

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
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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