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Becoming Art: Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories

Becoming Art: Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Vol. 10, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 5066 Book Reviews HOWARD MORPHY Sydney, University of New South Wales Press, 2008 xv233 pp., ill., bibliography, index, ISBN: 978-1-92141-012-3, $44.95 (paper) Howard Morphy is indisputably an intellectual leader in the anthropology of art. For over 40 years he has been engaged in debates about aesthetics as a cross-cultural concept against others in his own discipline, as well as in the promotion of Aboriginal art as ‘art’. And he has ‘won’ (along with others). Major galleries now hold extensive collections of Aboriginal art and exhibit Aboriginal artists. Yet, to some extent, this win has been pragmatic rather than conceptual as a result of dogmas about the ‘otherness’ of Indigenous societies and the sense that their art is not ‘art in the sense we understand it’. Although accepted as art, the history of Aboriginal paintings remains largely absent from ‘Australian art history’. This book addresses questions about how anthropologists and other theorists should conceptualise a cross-cultural theory of art, how we should understand the historical process of Aboriginal art’s acceptance as art and how we may move beyond a Western essentialised appreciation of Aboriginal art as ‘timeless http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Vol. 10, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 5066 Book Reviews HOWARD MORPHY Sydney, University of New South Wales Press, 2008 xv233 pp., ill., bibliography, index, ISBN: 978-1-92141-012-3, $44.95 (paper) Howard Morphy is indisputably an intellectual leader in the anthropology of art. For over 40 years he has been engaged in debates about aesthetics as a cross-cultural concept against others in his own discipline, as well as in the promotion of Aboriginal art as...
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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Vol. 10, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 5066 Book Reviews HOWARD MORPHY Sydney, University of New South Wales Press, 2008 xv233 pp., ill., bibliography, index, ISBN: 978-1-92141-012-3, $44.95 (paper) Howard Morphy is indisputably an intellectual leader in the anthropology of art. For over 40 years he has been engaged in debates about aesthetics as a cross-cultural concept against others in his own discipline, as well as in the promotion of Aboriginal art as ‘art’. And he has ‘won’ (along with others). Major galleries now hold extensive collections of Aboriginal art and exhibit Aboriginal artists. Yet, to some extent, this win has been pragmatic rather than conceptual as a result of dogmas about the ‘otherness’ of Indigenous societies and the sense that their art is not ‘art in the sense we understand it’. Although accepted as art, the history of Aboriginal paintings remains largely absent from ‘Australian art history’. This book addresses questions about how anthropologists and other theorists should conceptualise a cross-cultural theory of art, how we should understand the historical process of Aboriginal art’s acceptance as art and how we may move beyond a Western essentialised appreciation of Aboriginal art as ‘timeless

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