Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 No Country for Old Men : Australian Art History’s Difficulty with Aboriginal Art
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    y separately published work icon Australian Historical Studies vol. 54 no. 4 2023 27235576 2023 periodical issue 'In this year of the Referendum for the Voice and Australian First Nations contemporary art politics, including ‘decolonisation’, Black Lives Matter and the call for ‘truth-telling’, a review of the nation’s eurocentric art history is necessary and timely. Until relatively recently, the category of Aboriginal art was constructed as ‘primitive’ in relation to the more ‘sophisticated’ European-Australian art, while the category of ‘Australian art’ itself excluded recognition of the lived experience and visual cultures of First Nations Australians. As we demonstrate in this journal issue, dismantling the eurocentric notions of art and history, while being alert to racism and the eliminatory tendencies of Australian settler colonialism, is not a straightforward process.' (Editorial introduction) 2023 pg. 606-624
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