TY - JOUR
T1 - Australian Art and its Aboriginal Histories
AU - Paisley, Fiona
AU - Rowse, Tim
PY - 2023/10
Y1 - 2023/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/westernsydney.edu.au?url=https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2023.2261166
U2 - 10.1080/1031461X.2023.2261166
DO - 10.1080/1031461X.2023.2261166
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85175994787
SN - 1031-461X
VL - 54
SP - 597
EP - 605
JO - Australian Historical Studies
JF - Australian Historical Studies
IS - 4
ER -