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Indigenous archives : the making and unmaking of Aboriginal art / edited by Darren Jorgensen and Ian Mclean.

Jorgensen, Darren, (editor.). McLean, Ian, 1952- (editor.).

Summary:

The archive is a source of power. It takes control of the past, deciding which voices will be heard and which won't, how they will be heard and for what purposes. Indigenous archivists were at work well before the European Enlightenment arrived and began its own archiving. Sometimes at odds, other times not, these two ways of ordering the world have each learned from, and engaged with, the other. Colonialism has been a struggle over archives and its processes as much as anything else. The eighteen essays by twenty authors investigate different aspects of this struggle in Australia, from traditional Indigenous archives and their developments in recent times to the deconstruction of European archives by contemporary artists as acts of cultural empowerment. It also examines the use of archives developed for other reasons, such as the use of rainfall records to interpret early Papunya paintings. Indigenous Archives is the first overview of archival research in the production and understanding of Indigenous culture. Wide-ranging in its scope, it reveals the lively state of research into Indigenous histories and culture in Australia.

Record details

ISBN: 9781742589220
ISBN: 1742589227
Physical Description: xvii, 453 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Publisher: Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2017.
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-453).

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface / Darren Jorgensen and Ian McLean -- Introduction : convergent archives / Ian McLean ; -- Part 1: Limits to Archives. -- Reflections on the Rodney Gooch files / Anne Marie Brody -- Creating the archive -- research into the history of the Utopia Art Movement / Chrischona Schmidt -- Three certificates are not enough: Rover Thomas and Art Centre Archives / Suzanne Spunner -- Namarari and the Papunya Tula Archive : linking art history and biography / Alec O'Halloran ; -- Part 2: Histories From Archives. -- Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula: history, landscape and La Niña 1974 / John Kean -- Between rocks and hard places: Mary Puntji Clement and teh Kalumburu Art Project / Philippa Jahn -- Whild styles at the outstation: Jackie Giles and Ngipi Ward at Patjarr / Darren Jorgensen ; -- Part 3: Indigenising Archives. -- Memory, history, archive: Ngaanyatjarra history paintings / Emilia Galatis -- Wukun Wanambi's Nhina, Nhäha, Ga Ngäma (Sit, Look, and Listen) / Robert Lazarus Lane -- Our art, our way: towards an An̲angu art history with Ar̲a Irititja / John Dallwitz, Janet Inyika, Susan Lowish and Linda Rive -- The third archive and artist as archivist / Margo Neale ; -- Part 4: Decolonising Archives. -- Losing the archive: Julie Gough at the MAA, Cambridge and Christian Thompson at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford / Jessyca Hutchens -- Bleeding the archive, transforming the mythscape / Genevieve Grieves and Odette Kelada -- Anachronic archive: turning the time of the image of teh Aboriginal avant-garde / Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll -- Aboriginal transformations of the photographic archive / Jane Lydon -- Kept in silence -- an archival travelogue / Brook Andrew and Katarina Matiasek -- Afterword: diagrammatic and database dreamings / Darren Jorgensen.