Painting Culture
Subtitle: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art (Objects/Histories)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780822329497
Subjects: Art of indigenous peoples; Painting & paintings; Pintupi (Australian people); General; Art, Pintupi; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Painting, Aboriginal Australian; History - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Criticism; Anthropology/Ethnography; Cultural Studies; Western Desert (W.A.); Australia; Marketing; Material culture
Description: This text tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic dot paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors.