Indigenous Australian art in intercultural contact zones
Author(s) -
Eleonore Wildburger
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
doaj (doaj: directory of open access journals)
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.1344/co20093109-115
Subject(s) - indigenous , geography , visual arts , sociology , anthropology , art , biology , ecology
This article comments on Indigenous Australian art from an intercultural perspective. The painting Bush Tomato Dreaming (1998), by the Anmatyerre artist Lucy Ngwarai Kunoth serves as model case for my argument that art expresses existential social knowledge. In consequence, I will argue that social theory and art theory together provide tools for intercultural understanding and competence
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