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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art Under Occupation

Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art Under Occupation

Biddle, Jennifer Loureide

Hardcover

Series: Objects/Histories

Art HistoryAnthropologyAustralian & Oceanian Art

ISBN10: 0822360551
ISBN13: 9780822360551
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Feb 5 2016
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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.

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