Double desire : transculturation and indigenous contemporary art / edited and introduced by Ian McLean.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 31, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1; NAMES; THEORIES; PART II; THE GRASS CEILING; COLLABORATORS; RELATIONAL AGENCY; THE CHALLENGE OF CROSS-CULTURALCREATIVITY; PART III; INDIGENOUS MINIMALISM; POSTMODERN ALLEGORISTS; THE FEMINIST SHIFT; DIASPORA AND FRONTIER IN THE ARCADIAOF PANTJITI MARY MCLEAN; IS ART HISTORY ANY USETO ABORIGINAL ARTISTS?GABRIEL MARALNGURRA'SCONTACT PAINTINGS; PART IV; "AFRICA = RECYCLING"; HOMELAND ARTISTSAND THE CONTEMPORARY ARTWORLD; WHOSE IDENTITY CRISIS?BETWEEN THE ETHNOGRAPHICAND THE ART MUSEUM; INDIGENOUS ART; CONTRIBUTORS.

Double Desire challenges the tendency by critics to perpetuate an aesthetic apartheid between Indigenous and Western art. The double desire explored in this book is that of the divided but also amplified attractions that occur between cultural traditions in places where both indigenous and colonial legacies are strong. The result, it is argued, produces imaginative transcultural practices that resist the assimilation or acculturation of Indigenous perspectives into the dominant Western mod ...

English.

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