Laura Fisher

Aboriginal Art and Australian Society (eBook, PDF)

Hope and Disenchantment

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Aboriginal art movement flourished during a period in which the Australian public were awakened to the implications of the state's decision to confront the legacies of colonisation and bring Aboriginal culture into the heart of national public life. Rather than seeing this radical political and social transformation as mere context for Aboriginal art's emergence, this study argues that Aboriginal art has in fact mediated Australian society's negotiation of the changing status of Aboriginal culture over the last century. This argument is illustrated through the analysis of Aboriginal art's volatility as both a high art movement and a phenomenon of visual and commercial culture. This analysis reveals the agendas to which Aboriginal art has been anchored at the nexus of the redemptive project of the settler state, Indigenous movements for rights and recognition, and the aspirations of progressive civil society.

At its heart this study is concerned with the broader social and cultural insights that can be gleaned from conducting a sustained inquiry into Aboriginal art's contested meanings. To achieve this it focuses upon the hopeful and disenchanted faces of the Aboriginal art phenomenon: the ideals of cultural revitalisation and empowerment that have converged upon the art, and the countervailing narratives of exploitation, degradation and futility. Both aspects are traced through a range of settings in which the tensions surrounding Aboriginal art's aesthetic, political and significance have been negotiated. It is in this dialectic that the vexed ethical questions underlying Australia's settler state condition can most clearly be identified, and we can begin to navigate the paradoxes and impasses underlying the redemptive national project of the post-assimilation era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783085323
• Artikelnr.: 46882964

Autorenporträt

Laura Fisher is a sociologist and art historian based in Sydney, Australia. She is pursuing a range of research interests around art in the public domain, visionary outdoor environments, the cultural economy and Aboriginal art. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Governance, Nationhood and Civil Society
Chapter 1: New Intercultural Relationships in the Post-Assimilation Era
Chapter 2: Aboriginal People Mobilising Aboriginal Art
Chapter 3: Understanding Aboriginal Art Subsidy
Chapter 4: The State Mobilising Aboriginal Art
Chapter 5: 'Aboriginal culture' at the Nexus of Justice, Recognition and Redemption
Part II: Contemporary Aboriginal Art in the 1980s
Chapter 6: The Emergence of Aboriginal Art in the 1980s
Part III: Negotiating Difference
Chapter 7: Negotiation Aboriginal Difference
Chapter 8: The Art/Anthropology Binary
Part IV: Aboriginal Art, Money and the Market
Chapter 9: Ethics and Exploitation in the Aboriginal Art Market
Chapter 10: 'Aboriginal Mass Culture' and the Cultural Industries
Conclusion.