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Sacred Exchanges: Images in Global Context
Robyn Ferrell
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Description for Sacred Exchanges: Images in Global Context
Hardback. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 192 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: 1MBF; ABQ; ACBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
As the international art market globalizes the indigenous image, it changes its identity, status, value, and purpose in local and larger contexts. Focusing on a school of Australian Aboriginal painting that has become popular in the contemporary art world, Robyn Ferrell traces the influence of cultural exchanges on art, the self, and attitudes toward the other. Aboriginal acrylic painting, produced by indigenous women artists of the Australian Desert, bears a superficial resemblance to abstract expressionism and is often read as such by viewers. Yet to see this art only through a Western lens is to miss its unique ontology, ... Read more
As the international art market globalizes the indigenous image, it changes its identity, status, value, and purpose in local and larger contexts. Focusing on a school of Australian Aboriginal painting that has become popular in the contemporary art world, Robyn Ferrell traces the influence of cultural exchanges on art, the self, and attitudes toward the other. Aboriginal acrylic painting, produced by indigenous women artists of the Australian Desert, bears a superficial resemblance to abstract expressionism and is often read as such by viewers. Yet to see this art only through a Western lens is to miss its unique ontology, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231148801
SKU
V9780231148801
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About Robyn Ferrell
Robyn Ferrell is a research fellow in the Gender and Cultural Studies Department at the University of Sydney and has taught at the University of Melbourne, Macquarie University, and the University of Tasmania. She has also held visiting research positions at the London School of Economics and the University of Western Sydney and is the author of Copula: Sexual Technologies, ... Read more
Reviews for Sacred Exchanges: Images in Global Context
Sacred Exchanges is beautifully written. One of its main strengths lies in its nuanced, interdisciplinary, and comparative approach. It skillfully negotiates among different cultural perspectives and theoretical approaches to art and politics, ranging from indigenous studies, feminism, and postcolonial studies to psychoanalysis and philosophy. Equally at home in all of these modes of interpretation, Robyn Ferrell at the same time ... Read more