Becoming Art: Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories

by Howard Morphy

Book Overview

Thirty years ago Australian Aboriginal art was little more than a footnote to world art. Today, it is considered to be an important contemporary art movement, often promoted as being connected to a deep cultural past.

Becoming Art provides a new analysis of the shifting cultural and social contexts that surround the production of Aboriginal art. Transcending the boundaries between anthropology and art history, the book draws on arguments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845206576
• ISBN13: 9781845206574
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.5"