Research Catalog

Title

Painting culture : the making of an aboriginal high art / Fred R. Myers.

Author

Myers, Fred R., 1948-

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.

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Description

410 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Art as an investment
• Cultural property > Protection > Australia > Western Desert (W.A.)
• Art, Pintupi > Australia > Western Desert (W.A.)
• Pintupi (Australian people) > Material culture > Australia > Western Desert (W.A.)
• Acrylic painting > Australia > Western Desert (W.A.) > Marketing
• Painting, Aboriginal Australian > Australia > Western Desert (W.A.) > Marketing

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- App. A Short History of Papunya Tula Exhibition, 1971-1985.

ISBN

• 0822329328 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0822329492 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2002009560
• 9780822329497 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC

• 50090270
• ocm50090270
• SCSB-4327320

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries