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Author McLean, Ian, 1952- author.

Title Rattling spears : a history of Indigenous Australian art / Ian McLean
Published London : Reaktion Books, 2018

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Contents EMPIRE -- 1. Origin Stories: Dreamtime in Botany Bay, 1770 -- 2. Indigenous Art and Empire in Sydney, 1788 -- 1830 -- 3. Post-contact Indigenous Art in the Australian Colonies, 1835 -- 1900 -- NATION -- 4. Indigenous Art in White Australia, 1900 -- 1970 -- 5. Invention of Indigenous Contemporary Art, 1970 -- 1990 -- POST-WESTERN -- 6. Remote Masters, 1985 -- 2015 -- 7. Post-identity: Urban Indigenous Art, 1987 -- 2015
Summary Art of Indigenous peoples. Australian. Large, bold and colourful, Indigenous Australian art has impressed itself on the contemporary imagination. But it is controversial, dividing the stakeholders from those who smell a scam. Whether the artists are victims or victors, there is no denying their impact in the media and on the art world and collectors worldwide. How did it become the most successful Indigenous art in the world? How did its artists escape the ethnographic and souvenir markets to become players in an art world from which they had been barred? Superbly illustrated, this full historical account makes you question everything you were taught about modern and contemporary art
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-284) and index
Subject Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Marketing
Art, Aboriginal Australian -- History
Gunwinggu -- Gunwinygu -- Kunwinjku people (N65) (NT SD53-02)
Yolngu people (NT SD53)
Tiwi people (N20) (NT SC52-16)
History -- Art
Religion -- Dreaming
Art -- Aboriginalia
Art -- Theory and criticism
Art -- Artists
Art -- Rock art -- Painting
Art -- Painting -- Bark
Art -- Painting -- Acrylic -- Dot
Art -- Photography
Art -- Photography -- Photographers
Weapons -- Spears
Art -- Economic aspects -- Markets
Community organisations -- Arts and crafts
ART -- Australian & Oceanian.
Art, Aboriginal Australian
Aborigines
Kunst
Iwi taketake.
Tiwi Islands (NT SC52-15, SC52-16)
Botany Bay (S Sydney NSW SI56-05)
Sydney (NSW SI56-05)
West Arnhem Land (NT SD53, SC53)
Queensland (Qld.)
Northern Territory (NT)
Australien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781780236230
1780236239