Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art Under Occupation

by Jennifer L. Biddle and Jennifer Loureide Biddle

Book Overview

In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle models new and emergent desert Aboriginal aesthetics as an art of survival. Since 2007, Australian government policy has targeted "remote" Australian Aboriginal communities as at crisis level of delinquency and dysfunction. Biddle asks how emergent art responds to national emergency, from the creation of locally hunted grass sculptures to biliterary acrylic witness paintings to stop-motion animation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822360551
• ISBN13: 9780822360551
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"