LEADER 03662nam 22006375 450 001 9910160352503321 005 20190708092533.0 010 $a0-231-50442-X 024 7 $a10.7312/ferr14880 035 $a(CKB)2670000000186679 035 $a(EBL)909449 035 $a(OCoLC)818856779 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000652558 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11384409 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000652558 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10642503 035 $a(PQKB)11145237 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000087851 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909449 035 $a(DE-B1597)458845 035 $a(OCoLC)979969360 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231504423 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000186679 100 $a20190708d2012 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSacred Exchanges $eImages in Global Context /$fRobyn Ferrell 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cColumbia University Press, $d[2012] 210 4$dİ2012 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 225 0 $aColumbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14880-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tList of Photographs -- $tArt -- $tCulture -- $tGender -- $tLaw -- $tReferences -- $tIndex -- $tBackmatter 330 $aAs the international art market globalizes the indigenous image, it changes its identity, status, value, and purpose in local and larger contexts. Focusing on a school of Australian Aboriginal painting that has become popular in the contemporary art world, Robyn Ferrell traces the influence of cultural exchanges on art, the self, and attitudes toward the other.Aboriginal acrylic painting, produced by indigenous women artists of the Australian Desert, bears a superficial resemblance to abstract expressionism and is often read as such by viewers. Yet to see this art only through a Western lens is to miss its unique ontology, logics of sensation, and rich politics and religion. Ferrell explores the culture that produces these paintings and connects its aesthetic to the brutal environmental and economic realities of its people. From here, she travels to urban locales, observing museums and department stores as they traffic interchangeably in art and commodities. Ferrell ties the history of these desert works to global acts of genocide and dispossession. Rethinking the value of the artistic image in the global market and different interpretations of the sacred, she considers photojournalism, ecotourism, and other sacred sites of the western subject, investigating the intersection of modern art and postmodern culture. She ultimately challenges the primacy of the "European gaze" and its fascination with sacred cultures, constructing a more balanced intercultural dialogue that deemphasizes the aesthetic of the real championed by western philosophy. 410 0$aColumbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts. 606 $aArt$xPolitical aspects 606 $aArt$xEconomic aspects 606 $aArt and society 606 $aPainting, Aboriginal Australian 615 0$aArt$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aArt$xEconomic aspects. 615 0$aArt and society. 615 0$aPainting, Aboriginal Australian. 676 $a306.85/0973 700 $aFerrell$b Robyn, $01223026 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910160352503321 996 $aSacred Exchanges$92837024 997 $aUNINA