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The Importance of Being Anachronistic: Contemporary Aboriginal Art and Museum Reparations focuses on the role of time in contemporary art and introduces anachrony as a method for subverting the colonial archive. This publication takes as its subject Trawlwoolway artist Julie Gough’s The Lost World (Part 2) exhibition and intervention in the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The Importance of Being Anachronistic is a peer-reviewed publication, and a collaboration between the journals Discipline and Third Text.
INDIGENOUS ARCHIVES: THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF ABORIGINAL ART (EDITED BY DARREN JORGENSEN A ND IAN MCLEAN)
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Humanities Research
Writing/righting a history of Australian Aboriginal art2009 •
More sophisticated equivalences are starting to be made between works of Aboriginal art and the rest of the objects that inhabit the art world; as such, this is an exciting time for the discipline of art history. It is also a dangerous time, as it negotiates pathways through different narratives and is confronted with the dynamic interface of Indigenous and settler art histories. This paper discusses some of the problematic methodological approaches adopted by art historians and anthropologists in several major publications that have become standards in the fields of Australian and Aboriginal art. It examines the use of the label ‘Aboriginal art’ as an identifier of a category the contents and borders of which are currently racially defined and argues that a temporal emphasis be adopted that would see ‘Aboriginal art’ understood more as a period style. It argues that different kinds of primitivism have contributed to and maintained the difficulties in relating Aboriginal art to Australian art and vice versa. Finally, this paper considers how Aboriginal art can be written about in the future and asks how best to proceed. How do we write (or right) the history of Australian Aboriginal art?
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In her ambitious Rethinking Australia’s art history: The challenge of Aboriginal art, Susan Lowish tackles an issue that sits at the very epicentre of art historical thinking in Australia, but one that until now has eluded the kind of singular attention it receives in this timely book. Much Australian art history and art historiography has sought to acknowledge and account for the transformation of the field as a result of the flourishing of Aboriginal art and art exhibitions, especially since the late 1980s. International scholars who are interested in contemporary challenges to the Eurocentric origins of art history and who are familiar with Australian art historical contributions to the field1 or some of the major international exhibitions in recent decades,2 will be aware that art historians and curators have sought to grapple with the challenges and opportunities provided by Aboriginal art. In this book Lowish seeks to investigate early thinking on the topic in the belief that ...
An Archaeological Life: Papers in Honour of Jay Hall.
Rowland, M.J., An attack of Nostalgia … and other ways of seeing the past. In Ulm S. and I. Lilley (eds) An Archaeological Life: Papers in Honour of Jay Hall. Pp59-72. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland, Brisbane.2006 •
Archives and Manuscripts
‘Me Write Myself’: The Free Aboriginal Inhabitants of Van Diemen’s Land at Wybalenna, 1832–472019 •
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Untie to Tie: On Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies (ifa Digital Platform)
Art and Anachronisms2017 •
American Anthropological Association
The Post-Anthropological: Convergences Across Museums, Art, and Colonialism (AAA Panel, Vancouver BC 2019)2019 •
Cultural Sociology
The Art/Ethnography Binary: Post-Colonial Tensions within the Field of Australian Aboriginal Art2012 •
Humanities Research
Indigenous Presences and National Narratives in Australasian Museums2009 •
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Australian Historical Studies
No Country for Old Men: Australian Art History’s Difficulty with Aboriginal Art, in Australian Historical Studies2023 •
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Before farming: The archaeology and anthropology of …
Colonial collections of portable art and intercultural encounters in Aboriginal Australia2003 •
Journal of Art Historiography, no. 1
Historical ironies: the Australian Aboriginal art revolution2009 •
History of Photography
Encounters with Legacy Images: Decolonising and Re-imagining Photographic Evidence from the Colonial Archive2018 •
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AICCM Bulletin
Don’t You Think it’s Time? Reflecting on Time-Based Media Art Conservation Practices in Australia2021 •
Traces, Legacies, and Futures: A Conversation on Art and Temporality
Traces, Legacies, and Futures: A Conversation on Art and Temporality2020 •
Museum Anthropology Review
Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art under Occupation. Jennifer Loureide Biddle. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. 304 pp.2016 •
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The Journal of Art Historiography
Setting the scene: early writing on Australian Aboriginal art2011 •