| Description |
xv, 456 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: convergent archives / Ian Mclean -- 2. Reflections on the Rodney Gooch files / Anne Marie Brody -- 3. Creating the archive - research into the history of the Utopia art movement / Chrischona Schmidt -- 4. Three certificates are not enough: Rover Thomas and the Art Centre Archives / Suzanne Spunner -- 5. Namarari and the Papunya Tula Archive: linking art history and biography / Alec O'Halloran -- 6. Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula: history, lanscape and La Nina 1974 / John Kean -- 7. Between rocks and hard places: Mary Puntji Clement and Kalumburu Art Project / Philippa Jahn -- 8. Wild styles at the outstation: Jackie Giles and Ngipi ward at Patjarr / Darren Jorgensen -- 9. Memory, history, archive: Ngaanyatjarra history paintings / Emilia Galatis -- 10. Wukun Wanambi's Nhina, Ga Ngama (sit, look and listen) / Robert Lazarus Lane -- 11. Our art, our way: towards an Anangu art history with Ara Itititja / John Dallwitz, Janet Inyika, Susan Lowish and Linda Rive -- 12. The third archive and artist archivist / Margo Neale -- 13. Losing the archive: Julie Gough at the MAA, Cambridge and Christian Thompson at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford / Jessyca Hutchens -- 14. Bleeding the archive, transforming the mythscape / Genevieve Grieves and Odette Kelada -- 15. Anachronic archive: turning the time of the image in the Aboriginal Avant-Garde / Khadija Von Zinnenburg Carroll -- 16. Aboriginal transformations of the photographic archive / Jane Lydon -- 17. Kept in silence - an archival travelogue / Brooke Abdrew and Latrina Matiasek -- 18. Afterword: Diagrammatic and database dreamings / Darren Jorgensen |
| Summary |
In recording and ordering documents considered important, the archive is a source of power. It takes control of the past, deciding which voices will be heard and which won't, how they will be heard and for what purposes. Indigenous communities understood the power of the archive well before the European Enlightenment arrived and began archiving them. For them colonialism has been a struggle over archives as much as anything else. The eighteen essays by twenty authors, seven of whom are Indigenous, investigate different aspects of this struggle in Australia, from Indigenous uses of traditional archives and the development of new ones to the deconstruction and appropriation of European archives by contemporary artists as acts of cultural empowerment |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [429]-451) |
| Audience |
Adult |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Archives -- Social aspects.
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Archives in art.
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Art archives -- Australia.
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Art, Aboriginal Australian.
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Painting, Aboriginal Australian.
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| Author |
Jorgensen, Darren, editor
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McLean, Ian, 1952- editor
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| LC no. |
be2017000597 |
| ISBN |
9781742589220 |
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