Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Prologue xv
5. Introduction: From Ethnoaesthetics to Art History 1
6. 1 Truth or Beauty: The Revelatory Regime of Pintupi Painting 17
7. 2 Practices of Painting: A Local History and a Vexed Intersection 54
8. 3 The Aesthetic Function and the Practice of Pintupi Painting: A Local Art History 80
9. 4 Making a Market: Cultural Policy and Modernity in the Outback 120
10. 5 Burned Out, Outback: Art AdvisersWorking between TwoWorlds 147
11. 6 The ‘‘Industry’’: Exhibition Success and Economic Rationalization 184
12. 7 After the Fall: In the Arts Industry 209
13. 8 Materializing Culture and the New Internationalism 230
14. 9 Performing Aboriginality at the Asia Society Gallery 255
15. 10 Postprimitivism: Lines of Tension in the Making of Aboriginal High Art 277
16. 11 Unsettled Business 315
17. 12 Recontextualizations: The Traffic in Culture 342
18. Appendix: A Short History of Papunya Tula Exhibition, 1971–1985 363
19. Notes 365
20. References 373
21. Index 391