Rattling spears : a history of indigenous Australian art
McLean, Ian, 1952-2016
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Large, bold, and colourful, Indigenous Australian art - sometimes known as Aboriginal art - has impressed itself on the contemporary art scene, becoming one of the most popular arts in the world. In this book, Ian McLean tells the improbable story of how a culture once viewed as one of the most primitive in the world invented its own distinct forms of modernism and conquered the contemporary art world. Beginning with its collision with modernity in the late eighteenth century, McLean looks at Indigenous Australian art as a complex practice that brought the world's oldest aesthetic traditions into the modern era.
Main title:
Rattling spears : a history of indigenous Australian art / Ian McLean.
Author:
McLean, Ian, 1952-, author
Imprint:
London : Reaktion Books, 2016.
Collation:
301 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781780235905 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
780422