Sacred Exchanges: Images in Global Context

by Robyn Ferrell

As 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231148801
• ISBN13: 9780231148801
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher