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Rethinking Australia's art history : the challenge of Aboriginal art / Susan Lowish.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lowish, Susan, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Studies in art historiography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Aboriginal Australian.
- Art--Australia--History.
- Art.
- History.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 204 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm.
- regular print
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2018.
- Summary:
- This book aims to redefine Australia's earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category "Aboriginal art," tracing the term's use through published literature in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Susan Lowish reveals how the idea of "Aboriginal art" developed in the European imagination, manifested in early literature, and became a distinct classification with its own criteria and form. Part of the larger story of Aboriginal/European engagement, this book provides a new vision for an Australian art history reconciled with its colonial origins and in recognition of what came before the contemporary phenomena of Aboriginal art.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780815374176
- 0815374178
- OCLC:
- 1043273926
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