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On Cross-Cultural Interpretations Of Aboriginal Art, Darren Jorgensen
On Cross-Cultural Interpretations Of Aboriginal Art, Darren Jorgensen
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
This paper critiques three schools of international art scholarship and their relevance to Australian Aboriginal art from remote communities. These schools are primitivism, histories of ornament and aesthetic theory. This is with a view to looking beyond accounts of Aboriginal art as representational, and toward a cross-cultural and sensual account of its practice. While primitivism influenced the scholarship on high art, histories of ornament and aesthetic theory offer new approaches to this art, and new ways of thinking about Aboriginal painting. The paper partly argues that the extensive influence of primitivism has prevented these latter areas of study in having …