Aboriginal Art and Australian Society: Hope and Disenchantment

Laura Fisher

Aboriginal Art and Australian Society

Hope and Disenchantment

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Laura Fisher

Publisher:: Anthem Press
Online publication date:: July 2017
Print publication year:: 2016
Online ISBN:: 9781783085323

Subjects:: History, Australian History

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This book is an investigation of the way the Aboriginal art phenomenon has been entangled with Australian society's negotiation of Indigenous people's status within the nation. At its heart this study is concerned with the broader social and cultural insights that can be gleaned from conducting a sustained inquiry into Aboriginal art’s contested meanings. To achieve this it focuses upon the hopeful and disenchanted faces of the Aboriginal art phenomenon: the ideals of cultural revitalisation and empowerment that have converged upon the art, and the countervailing narratives of exploitation, degradation and futility. Both aspects are traced through a range of settings in which the tensions surrounding Aboriginal art’s aesthetic, political and significance have been negotiated. It is in this dialectic that the vexed ethical questions underlying Australia’s settler state condition can most clearly be identified, and we can begin to navigate the paradoxes and impasses underlying the redemptive national project of the post-assimilation era.

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Hope and Disenchantment

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-x

Preface and Acknowledgements
pp xi-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-14

Part I - Governance, Nationhood and Civil Society
pp 15-16

Chapter 1 - New Intercultural Relationships in the Post-Assimilation Era
pp 17-30

Chapter 2 - Aboriginal People Mobilising Aboriginal Art
pp 31-40

Chapter 3 - Understanding Aboriginal Art Subsidy
pp 41-48

Chapter 4 - The State Mobilising Aboriginal Art
pp 49-56

Chapter 5 - ‘Aboriginal Culture’ at the Nexus of Justice, Recognition and Redemption
pp 57-70

Part II - Contemporary Aboriginal Art in the 1980s
pp 71-74

Chapter 6 - The Emergence of Aboriginal Art in the 1980s
pp 75-102

Part III - Negotiating Difference
pp 103-104

Chapter 7 - Negotiating Aboriginal Difference
pp 105-116

Chapter 8 - The Art/Anthropology Binary
pp 117-132

Part IV - Aboriginal Art, Money and the Market
pp 133-138

Chapter 9 - Ethics and Exploitation in the Aboriginal Art Market
pp 139-154

Chapter 10 - ‘Aboriginal Mass Culture’ and the Cultural Industries
pp 155-172

Conclusion
pp 173-184

Notes
pp 185-198

References
pp 199-234

Index
pp 235-244

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