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Destiny : the art of Destiny Deacon
- Title
- Destiny : the art of Destiny Deacon / Myles Russell-Cook with contributors.
- Publication
- Melbourne, VIC : National Gallery of Victoria, 2020.
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- Description
- xiii, 267 pages : chiefly colour illustrations, portraits; 28 cm
- Summary
- Australian artist Destiny Deacon, a Kuku and Erub/Mer (North-East Cape York and Torres Strait) woman, is known for having coined the term 'blak', in a reclaiming and recasting of a word with myriad connotations of colonialism and prejudice. Her work sits in the uncomfortable but compelling space between comedy and tragedy. Working across photography, video, printmaking, mixed media and installation, Deacon interrogates the way in which Aboriginal people have been, and continue to be, misrepresented within popular culture. This publication, edited by Myles Russell-Cook, Curator, Indigenous Art at the NGV and curator of the exhibition DESTINY, is the largest in-depth study of Deacon's practice ever to appear in book form. Through all-blak scholarship and images of Deacon's work spanning more than thirty years, we gain a strong sense of Deacon as artist and person, and of her enduring fascination with the human condition. contributors include Tony Albert, Brook Andrew, Richard Bell, Claire G. Coleman, Brenda L. Croft, Jonathan Jones, Kim Kruger, Danie Mellor, Clinton Naina, Hetti Perkins, Hannah Presley, Judy Watson.
- Subject
- Deacon, Destiny, 1957- > Exhibitions
- Deacon, Destiny, 1957-
- 2000-2099
- Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
- Aboriginal Australians in art > Exhibitions
- Indigenous art > Australia
- Art, Aboriginal Australian
- Artists, Aboriginal Australian > 21st century > Exhibitions
- Aboriginal Australians in art
- Artists, Aboriginal Australian
- Indigenous art
- Photography, Artistic
- Fine arts: treatments & subjects
- Australia
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander content
- Australian
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Event (note)
- Published in association with the exhibition DESTINY held at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Federation Square, 27 March - 9 August 2020.
- Contents
- Forward / Tony Ellwood AM -- DESTINY : the art of Destiny Deacon / Myles Russell-Cook -- Spinnin' a yarn / Richard Bell -- Showing colour / Claire G. Coleman -- Destiny deconstruction / Clinton Naina -- Blak magic / Hetti Perkins -- Lost and found / Jonathan Jones -- My date with Destiny / Judy Watson -- Disjointed humour and claustrophobia / Danie Mellor -- Can't escape our Destiny / Kim Kruger -- Interview with Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser / Hannah Presley -- Destiny is a hurricane / Brook Andrew -- Tripping the dark fantastic / Brenda L. Croft -- It's all about the Destiny / Tony Albert.
- ISBN
- 9781925432749
- 1925432742
- LCCN
- 99990317379
- OCLC
- on1123169908
- 1123169908
- SCSB-14254438
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries