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

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

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

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

by Susan Lowish
Rethinking Australia's Art History: The Challenge of Aboriginal Art
Rethinking Australia's Art History: The Challenge of Aboriginal Art

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

by Susan Lowish

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781032095417
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/30/2021
Series: Studies in Art Historiography
Pages: 236
Product dimensions: 6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

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