Becoming Art
Becoming Art Thirty years ago Australian Aboriginal art was little more than a footnote to world art. Transcending the boundaries between anthropology and art history, the book draws on arguments…
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Becoming Art
Thirty years ago Australian Aboriginal art was little more than a footnote to world art. Transcending the boundaries between anthropology and art history, the book draws on arguments from both disciplines to provide a unique interdisciplinary perspective that places the artists themselves at the centre of the argument.Western art history has traditionally regarded Aboriginal art as distanced in time and place. Today, it is considered to be an important contemporary art movement, often promoted as being connected to a deep cultural past.Becoming Art provides a new analysis of the shifting cultural and social contexts that surround the production of Aboriginal art.
It argues for a more cross-cultural perspective on world art Becoming Art uses the recent history of Aboriginal art to challenge some of the presuppositions of western art discourse and western art worlds.