Remembering forward
Subtitle: Australian aboriginal painting since 1960
By: edited by Kasper König, Emily Joyce Evans, Falk Wolf ; [translations German-English, Steven Lindberg
Contributors: Museum Ludwig
Publisher: Museum Ludwig; Paul Holberton Publishing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cologne; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781907372148
Subjects: Aboriginal Australian Painting; Exhibitions
Description: Remembering Forward presents works by nine of the most prominent Australian Aboriginal artists: Paddy Bedford, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Queenie McKenzie, Dorothy Napangardi, Rover Thomas, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri and Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula whose work spans the last forty years of contemporary Australian Indigenous painting in the Central and Western Deserts and the Kimberley region. The works are situated in, and generate, a peculiar tension between traditional and modern and past and present. On the one hand, they usually take as their subject the so called 'Dreamtime' of prehistory from which myths of the earth's and humankind's creation have been handed down. In that regard they are deeply traditional. On the other, these artists have radically changed their medium and method of art-making over the last forty years. Inherited practices of sand- and body-painting have been transformed such that the paintings are executed in acrylic on canvas or other portable media. These changes afforded the artists entry to the global art market. Thus they have adjusted to address an outside public and keep the images free of those parts of the Dreamings that, in their own culture, are reserved for the initiated. Two collections of bark paintings not only present this fascinating medium, but also provide the historical context for exhibitions of Indigenous Australian art in Western art museums.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 20 Nov. 2010-20 Mar. 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-185).
Table of contents: title: Catalogue: Paddy Bedford ; Emily Kame Kngwarreye ; Queenie McKenzie ; Dorothy Napangardi ; Rover Thomas ; Ronnie Tjampitjinpa ; Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri ; Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri ; Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula ; Bark paintings  -- Emily Joyce Evans and Falk Wolf -- "The; title: raw and the cooked": what makes aboriginal art so 'deadly'  -- Judith Ryan; title: What did paintings want? Pintupi painting at Yayayi in the 1970s  -- Fred Myers; title: A personal history of aboriginal art  -- Djon Mundine Oam; title: Bell's theorem: aboriginal art--it's a white thing  -- Richard Bell; title: The authenticity of Australian aboriginal painting in the age of globalization -- Ian McLean.