03643nam 2200637 a 450 991016035250332120200520144314.00-231-50442-X10.7312/ferr14880(CKB)2670000000186679(EBL)909449(OCoLC)818856779(SSID)ssj0000652558(PQKBManifestationID)11384409(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000652558(PQKBWorkID)10642503(PQKB)11145237(StDuBDS)EDZ0000087851(MiAaPQ)EBC909449(DE-B1597)458845(OCoLC)979969360(DE-B1597)9780231504423(EXLCZ)99267000000018667920110617d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSacred exchanges images in global context /Robyn FerrellNew York Columbia University Pressc20121 online resource (193 p.)Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the artsDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-14880-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Photographs -- Art -- Culture -- Gender -- Law -- References -- Index -- BackmatterAs the international art market globalizes the indigenous image, it changes its identity, status, value, and purpose in local and larger contexts. Focusing on a school of Australian Aboriginal painting that has become popular in the contemporary art world, Robyn Ferrell traces the influence of cultural exchanges on art, the self, and attitudes toward the other.Aboriginal acrylic painting, produced by indigenous women artists of the Australian Desert, bears a superficial resemblance to abstract expressionism and is often read as such by viewers. Yet to see this art only through a Western lens is to miss its unique ontology, logics of sensation, and rich politics and religion. Ferrell explores the culture that produces these paintings and connects its aesthetic to the brutal environmental and economic realities of its people. From here, she travels to urban locales, observing museums and department stores as they traffic interchangeably in art and commodities. Ferrell ties the history of these desert works to global acts of genocide and dispossession. Rethinking the value of the artistic image in the global market and different interpretations of the sacred, she considers photojournalism, ecotourism, and other sacred sites of the western subject, investigating the intersection of modern art and postmodern culture. She ultimately challenges the primacy of the "European gaze" and its fascination with sacred cultures, constructing a more balanced intercultural dialogue that deemphasizes the aesthetic of the real championed by western philosophy.Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.ArtPolitical aspectsArtEconomic aspectsArt and societyPainting, Aboriginal AustralianArtPolitical aspects.ArtEconomic aspects.Art and society.Painting, Aboriginal Australian.700.1Ferrell Robyn1960-901612MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910160352503321Sacred exchanges4200966UNINA