"In colonial Australia manners marked the difference between savagery and civilisation, between vulgarity and refinement. Colonists recoiled in shock and confusion at the customs of Indigenous Australians, but they also sensed the savagery lurking in white society. Manners matte…
Double Desire challenges the tendency by critics to perpetuate an aesthetic apartheid between Indigenous and Western art ... The essays, by fourteen experts in the field, discuss Indigenous comtemporary art practices and their artworld reception in different locales in Australia…
"This international volume draws together key research that examines visual arts of the past and contemporary indigenous societies. Placing each art style in its temporal and geographic context, the contributors show how depictions represent social mechanisms of identity constru…
