Australian Indigenous art: the journey from public to private space and back again

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Australian Indigenous art: the journey from public to private space and back again

Original language description

This paper will focus on the counter-cultural transition of Aboriginal art from its original space, generally considered private, to the public spaces of museums and art galleries. It will present the history, context and outcomes of this transition. Non-Indigenous interest in Aboriginal art tended toward objects that reflected known forms of art, or implements of practical use. This limited selection process was compounded by evolutionary theories that ranked the Indigenous below Western society. The range of displayed artworks was narrow and was further diminished by indifference to preservation. By the close of the nineteenth century, Aboriginal art was gaining recognition as a valuable intellectual commodity that represented the origin of human artistic endeavour. Attempts to display Aboriginal art publicly by Aborigines themselves emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, therefore the transition cannot be considered linear or initiated solely by Westerners. The outcomes of the transition impacted Aboriginal people, culture and art in a variety of ways, including the use of new motifs and materials, techniques and an altered position of Aboriginal artists within Australian society. The institutionalisation of Aboriginal art is also connected to the recognition of Aboriginal art as a significant art form, however the process was impeded by the existing dichotomies between anthropology and art, museum and gallery. The paper applies John Dewey’s critique of ‘the museum conception of art’ (Art as Experience 1934) to verify that, if the ‘continuity between art and life’ is sustained, the unique values and aesthetic principles of different cultures are accentuated and provide a suitable environment for understanding of diverse cultural contexts.

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

SÚRADNICE ESTETIKY, UMENIA A KULTÚRY 7: Verejný priestor v kontextoch estetiky, umeleckej teórie a umeleckej praxe

ISBN

978-80-555-2996-7

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Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

263-277

Publisher name

Prešovská univerzita v Prešove,

Place of publication

Prešov

Event location

Prešov

Event date

Nov 11, 2021

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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