In this book, historian, artist and curator Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll draws on contemporary Australian Aboriginal art to challenge historical blind spots and re-think stuffy conventions of art criticism. In exploring encounters between colonial visual cultures, her juxtapositions bring new ideas and objects into view, and allow us to see familiar things anew. This book tackles the important task of reclaiming Aboriginal practice from anthropology for art and in doing so, challenges outmoded notions of colonialism, media, art and even time.' - excerpted from flapped page.
Onsite
English
2014
307
9781409455967
1
monograph
Introduction
Partial Proclamations
Name and Descriptions
1. Mimesis of Tradition
Methodology in Koori Media
Possum-skin Cloaks and the making of Film
Gender, Visibility, Cloaks
Barks: Representations of Space and Time
Temporal and Gestural Communication in Drawings
The Abstract and the Figural
Armchair Enchantment
Continuities
2. The Picture Proclamation
The Patron Portrayed
Calculating Conciliation
Communication (of the Unseen)
The Nomad’s Passport
The Provenance of ‘Mission Brown’
The Black Line
Regeneration
Conclusion: Hieroglyphs and Dendroglyphs
3. The Encyclopaedia Terra Cognita
The Maturation Stages of Audience as Animal
The Life History of the Image, 1864–2008
Mimicry and Memorialization
Conclusion: Captioning out the Unknown
4. Anachronistic Mapping
Marking and Mapping Nationality and Place
The Map as Index
The Fourth Wall
The First Museum
Blandowski’s Library and Photographic Studio
Cognita or Incognita? The Unreliable Source
Conclusion: Mapping the Incommensurable
5. Telling Race in Silhouette
Curiosity in the Old Times
Euphemism and Empire
Inscription
Drawing the Ground, Understanding Time
Flags and Camouflages
Reception of Tourist Arts in the Market
Incommensurability and a Model of Assimilation
Conclusion and Other Performances
‘Iffy’ Re-enactments of Corroboree in Black Face
The Meandering Murrangurk
Mimicking the Incommensurable
Appropriation Ricochets
The Idiosyncratic in the Systems of Art History
Epilogue: Being Named in Relation
Empires and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-2000: Art in the Time of Colony
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