AUSTRALIAN ART ABORIGINAL
In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle models new and emergent desert Aboriginal aesthetics as an art of survival. Since 2007, Australian government policy has targeted “remote” Australian Aboriginal communities as at crisis level of delinquency and dysfunction. Biddle asks how emergent art responds to national emergency, from the creation of locally hunted grass sculptures to biliterary acrylic witness paintings to stop-motion animation. Following directly from the unprecedented success of the Western Desert art movement, contemporary Aboriginal artists harness traditions of experimentation to revivify at-risk vernacular languages, maintain cultural heritage, and ensure place-based practice of community initiative. Biddle shows how these new art forms demand serious and sustained attention to the dense complexities of sentient perception and the radical inseparability of art from life. Taking shape on frontier boundaries and in zones of intercultural imperative, Remote Avant-Garde presents Aboriginal art “under occupation” in Australia today.
— Peter Kilroy * LSE Review of Books *
“Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art under Occupation, by Jennifer Loureide Biddle, is a welcome addition to the literature on Indigenous Australian art, and more broadly to anthropologies of art, Indigenous Australia, and global Indigenous arts and aesthetics. I heartily recommend it to anyone in those fields, and would happily teach with it in anthropology, art history, art/artworlds, and museum studies.” — Sabra G. Thorner * Anthropological Quarterly *
“Jennifer Loureide Biddle has dared to deal with a daunting, dazzling array of ‘remote’ art in its multiple forms and complex contexts. The result is a profound, far from dispassionate book which does justice to an extraordinary canon of art.” — Noelene Cole * Journal of Anthropological Research *
“Remote Avant-Garde brilliantly revitalizes the literature on Aboriginal art by attending to fascinating experimental art practices and a fresh aesthetics emerging in remote Aboriginal communities. . . . [It] should be read not only by scholars interested in Aboriginal art but also anyone wanting to understand creative forms of political agency in colonial and postcolonial contexts.” — Rosita Henry * American Anthropologist *
- Humanitarian imperialism
- Tangentyere artists
- June Walkutjukurr Richards
- Rhonda Unrupa Dick
- Tjanpi desert weavers
- Warnayaka art : Yurlpa
- Yarrenyty Arltere artists
- Yiwarra Kuju : the canning stock route
- The Warburton arts project.
- rtists, Aboriginal Australian — Northern Territory
- Art, Aboriginal Australian — Northern Territory
- Aboriginal Australians — Northern Territory — Government relations
- Art / Australian & Oceanian
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social - First Edition. pp. xv, 265 illusts. #221224