Rethinking Australia's Art History: The Challenge of Aboriginal Art

ISBN-13: 9781032095417 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 221 str.

Susan Lowish

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Writing a History of Encounters  2. Exploration and ‘Discovery’  3. Searching for the Origin of Art  4. Seeing the Art of the First Australians  5. Evolutionists and Australian Aboriginal Art  6. ‘Aboriginal Art’ in the Writings of Baldwin Spencer  7. Collecting and Exhibiting: the Dawn of ‘Primitive Art’  Conclusion

O autorze

Susan Lowish is Lecturer in Australian Art History at theUniversity of Melbourne.