Beschreibung:
This book aims to redefine Australia's earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category "Aboriginal art," tracing the term's use through published literature in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Introduction 1. Writing a History of Encounters 2. Exploration and 'Discovery' 3. Searching for the Origin of Art 4. Seeing the Art of the First Australians 5. Evolutionists and Australian Aboriginal Art 6. 'Aboriginal Art' in the Writings of Baldwin Spencer 7. Collecting and Exhibiting: the Dawn of 'Primitive Art' Conclusion