Australian Art and its Aboriginal Histories

Fiona Paisley, Tim Rowse

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Abstract

In this year of the Referendum for the Voice and Australian First Nations contemporary art politics, including ‘decolonisation’, Black Lives Matter and the call for ‘truth-telling’, a review of the nation’s eurocentric art history is necessary and timely. Until relatively recently, the category of Aboriginal art was constructed as ‘primitive’ in relation to the more ‘sophisticated’ European-Australian art, while the category of ‘Australian art’ itself excluded recognition of the lived experience and visual cultures of First Nations Australians.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)597-605
Number of pages9
JournalAustralian Historical Studies
Volume54
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2023
Externally publishedYes

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