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1 online resource |
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Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture ; 1 |
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Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture ; 1.
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Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedicacation; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Governance, Nationhood and Civil Society; Chapter 1. New Intercultural Relationships in the Post-Assimilation Era; 1.1 Cultural Trauma in Australian Public Culture; 1.2 The End of Assimilation and the Rise of Aboriginal Culture; 1.3 Paul Keating, Indigenised Settler Nationalism and Reconciliation; Chapter 2. Aboriginal People Mobilising Aboriginal Art; 2.1 Aboriginal Art Mobilised in Political and Legal Domains; 2.2 Aboriginal Art, Activism and Pan-Aboriginal Identity |
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2.3 Urban Indigenous Aesthetic Public SpheresChapter 3. Understanding Aboriginal Art Subsidy; 3.1 'Meaningful Work': Making Sense of Aboriginal Art Subsidy; 3.2 The Ambiguity of Aboriginal Art Sector Policy; Chapter 4. The State Mobilising Aboriginal Art; 4.1 The Acquisition, Endorsement and Appropriation of Aboriginal Art and the Growth of Aboriginal Public Culture; Chapter 5. 'Aboriginal Culture' at the Nexus of Justice, Recognition and Redemption; 5.1 Cultural Loss, Cultural Rights and Keeping Culture Strong; 5.2 Aboriginal Art as Metonymic for Aboriginal Culture |
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5.3 Conclusion to Part IPart II. Contemporary Aboriginal Art in the 1980s; Chapter 6. The Emergence of Aboriginal Art in the 1980s; 6.1 The Cultural Cringe and Provincialism; 6.2 The Emergence of Contemporary Aboriginal Art; 6.3 Artistic and Critical Approaches to Aboriginal Art; 6.3.1 Cultural convergence and rapprochement; 6.3.2 'Killing me softly': cultural colonialism and ethnocide; 6.3.3 Landscape and tribalism; 6.3.4 Appropriation; 6.3.5 Postmodernism and conceptualism; 6.3.6 Social justice; 6.4 The Overseas Reception of Aboriginal Art |
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6.5 Postcolonial Critique and Urban Aboriginal Voices6.6 The Bicentenary; 6.7 Conclusion to Part II; Part III. Negotiating Difference; Chapter 7. Negotiating Aboriginal Difference; 7.1 Four Facets of Difference; 7.2 The Cosmopolitan and the Tourist: Being an Outsider with Aboriginal Art; 7.3 Authenticity and 'The Story'; Chapter 8. The Art/Anthropology Binary; 8.1 The Disciplinary Relationship between Art and Anthropology; 8.2 Western Secularisation and the Differentiation of Primitive Art; 8.3 Anthropology, Colonialism and the Urban Aboriginal Art Movement |
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8.4 Conclusion to Part IIIPart IV. Aboriginal Art, Money and the Market; Chapter 9. Ethics and Exploitation in the Aboriginal Art Market; 9.1 The Bifurcation of the Aboriginal Art Market; 9.2 Where Does the Value of Aboriginal Fine Art Reside?; 9.3 Morality and Money in the Aboriginal Art Arena; Chapter 10. 'Aboriginal Mass Culture' and the Cultural Industries; 10.1 A Critical History of 'Aboriginal Mass Culture' and Visual Culture; 10.2 Aboriginal Art and Culture and the Cultural Industries; 10.3 What Do 'Aboriginal Mass Culture' and the Cultural Industries Do to Aboriginal Fine Art? |
| Summary |
"'Hope and Disenchantment' is an investigation of the way the Aboriginal art phenomenon has been entangled with Australian society's negotiation of Indigenous people's status within the nation over the last century. Through critical reflection on Aboriginal art's idiosyncrasies as a fine arts movement, its vexed relationship with money, and its mediation of the politics of identity and recognition, this study illuminates the mutability of Aboriginal art's meanings in different settings. It reveals that this mutability is a consequence of the fact that a range of governmental, activist and civil society projects have appropriated the art's vitality and metonymic power in national public culture, and that Aboriginal art is as much a phenomenon of visual and commercial culture as it is an art movement. Throughout these examinations, Fisher traces the utopian and dystopian currents of thought that have crystallised around the Aboriginal art movement and which manifest the ethical conundrums that underpin the settler state condition"-- Provided by publisher |
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Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of New South Wales, 2012) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Art and society -- Australia
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Art, Aboriginal Australian.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
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ART / Australian & Oceanian.
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HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand.
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ART / General
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
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Art, Aboriginal Australian
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Art and society
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Australia
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781783085330 |
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1783085339 |
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