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Lowish, Susan: Rethinking Australia's Art History. The Challenge of Aboriginal Art, Routledge, New York 2021, ISBN 9781032095417

Table of Contents        ¦         Cover Text        ¦         Review⁄Abstract

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations -ix-

Acknowledgements -xiv-

Introduction -1-

1 Writing a History of Encounters -7-

*Aboriginal Art in Australian Art Histories -10-

*Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal Art History -12-

*Legacies of Primitivism -13-

*Current Directions in Writing on Aboriginal Art -17-

2 Exploration and 'Discovery' -22-

*First Encounters: Baudin, Flinders and King, Grey and Stokes -23-

*Secondary Accounts: Hull, Tension-Woods, Wake, Smyth and Curr -39-

3 Searching for the Origin of Art -52-

*Early Science: Darwin, Howitt and Tylor -55-

*Following Grey: Bradshaw, Brockman and House, Greig and Walsh -60-

4 Seeing the Art of the First Australians -77-

*Early Australian Anthropology and Ethnology: between Sience and Christianity: Roth, Worsnop, Thornton and Mathew -79-

5 Evolutionists and Austrralian Aboriginal Art -100-

*Science and Art History: Ruskin, Decorative Art and Grosse -102-

*Spencer's Anthropological Influences: Balfour, Haddon, Lang and Frazer -110-

6 'Aboriginal Art' in the Writings of Baldwin Spencer -123-

*Spencer and Anthropology: Horn Expedition, Native Tribes of Central Australia and Northern Tribes of Central Australia -123-

*Spencer and Art: Across Australia, Native Tribes of the Northern Territory, The Arunta and Wanderings in Wild Australia -135-

7 Collecting and Exhibition: The Dawn of 'Primitive Art' -153-

*The First Collections: International and Colonial Exhibitions and the Changing Content of Displays -155-

*Aboriginal Art and Museums: A Defining Relationship: The Influence of Pitt Rivers on Australian Museum Displays, the Australian Museum in Sydney and from Weapons to Art -165-

Conclusion -182-

Bibliography -185-

Index -201-