Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)

By: Sarah Scott and Helen McDonald and Caroline Jordan

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Synopsis: This edited collection examines art resulting from cross-cultural interactions between Australian First Nations and non-Indigenous people, from the British invasion to today. Focusing on themes of collaboration and dialogue, the book includes two conversations between First Nations and non-Indigenous authors and an historian’s self-reflexive account of mediating between traditional owners and an international art auction house to repatriate art. There are studies of ‘reverse appropriation‘ by early nineteenth-century Aboriginal carvers of tourist artefacts and the production of enigmatic toa. Cross-cultural dialogue is traced from the post-war period to ‘Aboriginalism’ in design and the First Nations fashion industry of today. Transculturation, conceptualism, and collaboration are contextualised in the 1980s, a pivotal decade for the growth of collaborative First Nations exhibitions. Within the current circumstances of political protest in photographic portraiture and against the mining of sacred Aboriginal land, Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art testifies to the need for Australian institutions to collaborate with First Nations people more often and better. 　　 This book will appeal to students and scholars of art history, Indigenous anthropology, and museum and heritage studies.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781000924749
Related ISBNs:: 9781003284765, 9781032257389, 9781032257372
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 08/11/23
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Sarah Scott, Helen McDonald and Caroline Jordan
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Australiana, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Sarah Scott
Edited by:: Helen McDonald
Edited by:: Caroline Jordan