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OverviewIn the early 1970s at Papunya, a remote settlement in the Central Australian desert, a group of Indigenous artists decided to communicate the sacred power of their traditional knowledge to the wider worlds beyond their own. Their exceptional, innovative efforts led to an outburst of creative energy across the continent that gave rise to the contemporary Aboriginal art movement that continues to this day. In their new book, anthropologist Fred Myers and art critic Terry Smith discuss six Papunya paintings featured in a 2022 exhibition in New York. They draw on several discourses that have developed around First Nations art—notably anthropology, art history, and curating as practiced by Indigenous and non-Indigenous interpreters. Their focus on six key paintings enables unusually close and intense insight into the works’ content and extraordinary innovation. Six Paintings from Papunya also includes a reflection by Indigenous curator and scholar Stephen Gilchrist, who considers the nature and significance of this rare transcultural conversation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Fred R. Myers , Terry SmithPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.295kg ISBN: 9781478030782ISBN 10: 147803078 Pages: 136 Publication Date: 04 November 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Eternal Recurrence of Origins Kingsley Tjungurrai, Stars, Rain, and Lightning at Night, 1971 2. The Ceremony is the Place: The Past is the Present Shorty Lungkarta Tjungurrayi, Classic Pintupi Water Dreaming, 1972 3. The Icy Spirit: The Structure of Punishment Wartuma (Charlie Tarawa/Tjaruru) Tjungurrayi, The Trial, 1972 4. Inside and Outside: A Cave Allegory Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, Big Cave Dreaming with Ceremonial Objects, 1972 5. Stippling Plenitude: “The Water Man Does Not Get Wet—He Is the Rain Itself” Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, Water Dreaming at Kalipinypa, 1972 6. Dotting and Weaving Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa (with Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri), Ngalyipi (A Small Snake), 1972 Six Paintings from Papunya: A Reflection / Stephen Gilchrist Language and Person Names Glossary Notes Bibliography IndexReviews“While Fred and Terry appreciate that Indigenous art is in tacit dialogue with dominant approaches to categorization, their conversations work to reduce this determinative power. There is no desire to coax these paintings into familiar and complacent categorizations. On the contrary, they are genuinely responding to the intellectual and cultural challenges of the paintings by shaping a critical vocabulary and methodology that can best apprehend them. . . . They show us the richness of Indigenous cultural practices and the tools with which to apprehend them. Indigenous art and culture deserve nothing less.”— -- Stephen Gilchrist, from the Afterword “Fred R. Myers and Terry Smith’s shared knowledge of the history of Papunya painting as an art movement is invaluable. Smith’s authority as a historian and theorist is unmatched. Equally compelling is Myers’s anthropological research with the Pintupi; his writing on the reception of the art is unparalleled. Their conversations bring the reader to the gallery floor as these two great minds think through this art.” -- Ian McLean, author of * Double Nation: A History of Australian Art * “While Fred and Terry appreciate that Indigenous art is in tacit dialogue with dominant approaches to categorization, their conversations work to reduce this determinative power. There is no desire to coax these paintings into familiar and complacent categorizations. On the contrary, they are genuinely responding to the intellectual and cultural challenges of the paintings by shaping a critical vocabulary and methodology that can best apprehend them. . . . They show us the richness of Indigenous cultural practices and the tools with which to apprehend them. Indigenous art and culture deserve nothing less.”— -- Stephen Gilchrist, from the Afterword Author InformationFred Myers is Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York University and author of Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art, also published by Duke University Press. Terry Smith is Andrew W. Mellon Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Art to Come: Histories of Contemporary Art, also published by Duke University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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