Rethinking Australia’s art history : the challenge of Aboriginal art

1. Verfasser: Lowish, Susan, , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York, N.Y. ; London : Routledge, [2018].
Umfang/Format: xv, 204 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Studies in art historiography
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction
  • Writing a history of encounters
  • Exploration and discovery
  • Searching for the origin of art
  • Seeing the art of the first Australians
  • Evolutionists and Australian Aboriginal art
  • Aboriginal art in the writings of Baldwin Spencer
  • Collecting and exhibiting: The dawn of primitive art.
  • Chpt. 6: Aboriginal art in the writings of Baldwin Spencer; (i) Spencer and anthropology: Horn expedition, Native Tribes of Central Australia and Northern Tribes of Central Australia - (ii) Spencer and art: Across Australia, Native Tribes of the Northern Territory, The Arunta and wanderings in wild Australia.