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Aboriginal Art
anthropology
archaeology
art and race
art history
Australia
Australian Aboriginal Art
Australian Aboriginal People
Australian Art
Australian Art History
Author_Susan Lowish
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Baudin’s Expedition
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colonial art historiography
colonialism
cross-cultural encounters
Decorative Art
Dja Dja Wurrung
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ethnographic collecting
Europe
evolutionism
First Nations representation
George Grey
Glenelg River
Grosse's Work
Grosse’s Work
history of Aboriginal art classification
Horn Expedition
Indigenous Art
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous visual culture
Intercolonial Exhibition
monotheism
North West Central Queensland Aborigines
Northern Tribes
Pitt Rivers Collection
Pitt Rivers Museum
Primitive Art
primitive art theory
primitivism
Rock Drawings
Sir George Grey
Product details
- ISBN 9781032095417
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book aims to redefine Australia’s earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category "Aboriginal art," tracing the term’s use through published literature in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Susan Lowish reveals how the idea of "Aboriginal art" developed in the European imagination, manifested in early literature, and became a distinct classification with its own criteria and form. Part of the larger story of Aboriginal/European engagement, this book provides a new vision for an Australian art history reconciled with its colonial origins and in recognition of what came before the contemporary phenomena of Aboriginal art.
Susan Lowish is Lecturer in Australian Art History at the University of Melbourne.
