Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17921
Title: | "Remembering Forward": Stevenson and Aboriginal Art | Contributor(s): | Sandison, Alan G (editor) | Publication Date: | 2013 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17921 | Abstract: | In 1987 the anthropologist James Clifford told an audience at an art foundation gathering in New York that tribal artists "can no longer be marginalized. They speak not only for endangered 'traditions' but also for crucial human futures." According to Ian Mclean: "Aboriginal art being made today in remote communities of Australia remains distinctively Aboriginal; it may not be traditionalist, but it is neo-traditionalist as it relies to a large extent on traditional thinking to engage with the modern world. If it is accepted into the discourse of contemporary art, then the European model of postmodernism is not the only way to be contemporary in this age of globalization." By using this art as yet another lens through which to read Stevenson's work, I hope to draw this iridescent transitionist into a new discursive nexus - to take him out of the Romantic/Protomodernist/Modernist/Postmodernist battle-line and set him free among his own aesthetic abstractions. There are times when Stevenson gives vehement expression to his desire to strip himself of his physical identity and become one with artistic process - an abstract personality wholly defined by the needs and processes of art. | Publication Type: | Conference Publication | Conference Details: | RLS 2013: Stevenson, Time and History, Sydney, Australia, 8th - 10th July, 2013 | Source of Publication: | RLS 2013 Program | Publisher: | University of New South Wales | Place of Publication: | Sydney, Australia | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200503 British and Irish Literature 190103 Art Theory 200206 Globalisation and Culture |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470504 British and Irish literature 360103 Art theory 470210 Globalisation and culture |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950104 The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft) 950503 Understanding Australias Past 950504 Understanding Europes Past |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130103 The creative arts 130703 Understanding Australia’s past 130704 Understanding Europe’s past |
HERDC Category Description: | E3 Extract of Scholarly Conference Publication |
---|---|
Appears in Collections: | Conference Publication |
Files in This Item:
File | Description | Size | Format |
---|
Page view(s)
1,002
checked on Jul 23, 2023
Items in Research UNE are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.