Becoming Art: Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories
Howard Morphy
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Description for Becoming Art: Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories
Paperback. The Australian Aboriginal art is considered to be an important contemporary art movement, often promoted as being connected to a deep cultural past. This title provides an analysis of the shifting cultural and social contexts that surround the production of Aboriginal art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 50 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: ACBK; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 172 x 12. Weight in Grams: 504.
Thirty years ago Australian Aboriginal art was little more than a footnote to world art. 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. 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 ... Read more
Thirty years ago Australian Aboriginal art was little more than a footnote to world art. 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. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845206574
SKU
V9781845206574
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Ref
99-1
About Howard Morphy
Howard Morphy is Director of the Research School of Humanities, Australian National University.
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