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Painting culture : the making of an aboriginal high art / Fred R. Myers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Myers, Fred R., 1948-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Objects/histories.
- Objects/histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Pintupi--Australia--Western Desert (W.A.).
- Art, Pintupi.
- Pintupi (Australian people)--Material culture--Australia--Western Desert (W.A.).
- Pintupi (Australian people).
- Painting, Aboriginal Australian--Australia--Western Desert (W.A.)--Marketing.
- Painting, Aboriginal Australian.
- Acrylic painting--Australia--Western Desert (W.A.)--Marketing.
- Acrylic painting.
- Art as an investment.
- Cultural property--Protection--Australia--Western Desert (W.A.).6.
- Cultural property.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (431 p.)
- Other Title:
- Bead types from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Norton.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The history of the Australian Aboriginal painting movement from its local origins to its career in the international art market.
- 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
- Appendix: A Short History of Papunya Tula Exhibition, 1971-1985 .
- Notes:
- 1 color microfiche (3.5 x 5 cm.) in microfiche jacket in pocket, with caption: Bead types from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Norton.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-389) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612920424
- 9781282920422
- 1282920421
- 9780822384168
- 0822384167
- OCLC:
- 850217077
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