Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art [Hardcover]

Introduction

1. The Weight of Grief  Maree Clarke and Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll on Artist-centricity

2. On Working as an Aboriginal Museum Director and Curator of the Berndt Museum

3. Price and Provenance: William Barak as an Artist in the Market

4. The Duplicity of Emus and Kangaroos: Coats of Arms from the Australian Frontier

5. The Toa of the Dieri

6. The Arts are where Cultures Meet: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Aboriginal Art in Fashion and Textile Design

7. Aesthetically Similar but Politically Far Apart: The Art and Designs of Bill Onus and Byram Mansell during the Assimilationist Era

8. Shared Motives: New Art and Curatorial Collaborations in the 1980s

9. Decolonisation and Conceptual Art: Collaboration, Appropriation, Transculturation

Ian McLean

10. Widening the Aperture: Cross-cultural Collaboration  A Perspective from Borroloola

11. Wrecking Culture: Australian Iconoclash 2020

This edited collection examines art resulting from cross-cultural interactions between Australian First Nations and non-Indigenous people, from the British invasion to today.

This edited collection examines art resulting from cross-cultural interactions between Australian First Nations and non-Indigenous people, from the British invasion to today.

Focusing on themes of collaboration and dialogue, the book includes two conversations between First Nations and non-Indigenous authors and an historians self-reflexive account of mediating between traditional owners and an international art auction house to repatriate art. There are studies of reverse appropriation by early nineteenth-century Aboriginal carvers of tourist artefacts and the production of enigmatic l‚