Sacred exchanges: images in global context
The term?title" has multiple senses--as a claim to identity or social status, as an assertion of rights, as proof of ownership, as a designation of a work of art. In Untitled Robyn Ferrell contrasts these associations so characteristic of the first world with the status of indigenous peoples. She uses as an example a school of Aboriginal Australian women's art that has achieved significant international success in the contemporary art world. The work bears a strong superficial resemblance to Ab…
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- Full title :Sacred exchanges : images in global context / Robyn Ferrell.
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The term?title" has multiple senses--as a claim to identity or social status, as an assertion of rights, as proof of ownership, as a designation of a work of art. In Untitled Robyn Ferrell contrasts these associations so characteristic of the first world with the status of indigenous peoples. She uses as an example a school of Aboriginal Australian women's art that has achieved significant international success in the contemporary art world. The work bears a strong superficial resemblance to Abstract Expressionism, yet, as Ferrell shows so beautifully, to see it in the guise of comparati.
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- Publication Date:©2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (193 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780231504423, 023150442X
- DOI:10.7312/ferr14880
- oclc:ocn818856779
- LC Classification:N72.P6
- Dewey Decimal:700.1
Table of Contents
Writing on art -- Art. Utopia ; Dreaming ; Abstraction ; Striking color ; The real power of color ; How painting began -- Culture. Global art, local knowledge ; The idea of the museum ; In translation ; A white thing ; Image logic ; Photojournalism -- Gender. Stolen culture ; Little children are sacred ; Mum's the word ; Crisis in representation ; Race and gender -- Law. Common law ; Feeling for justice ; Apartheid ; Discovery ; Radical difference ; Emily Inc.
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