'I paint for everyone' - the making of Utopia art, Chrischona Schmidt

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The instance 'I paint for everyone' - the making of Utopia art, Chrischona Schmidt represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).

Label

'I paint for everyone' - the making of Utopia art, Chrischona Schmidt

Statement of responsibility

Chrischona Schmidt

Instantiates

• 'I paint for everyone' - the making of Utopia art

Production

• Canberra, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, March 2012

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references : pages 355-373

Carrier category

• volume
• computer disc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

• text
• still image

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Part 1 : Locating art from Utopia in literature and in public discourse; Art from Utopia in literature: ethnography of art and artists from Utopia; Womne's role and land rights; Embodiment and women's ritual; Affect and kinesis -- Art from Utopia in public discourse : the art market and exploitation of artists; The issue of authenticity; Inclusion of Indigenous art into the Western art canon; Modernity in Indigenous art; Conclusion: Myth-making and universal expressions; Agency of artists -- Utopia - geography and history of the place; Utopia: the place and its people; Utopia's place in history: an overview from first contact with Europeans until 1980; A historical overview of the development of the Utopia art movement: the "inner" art world: introduction, from batik to paintings; The art centre story -- A historical overview of the development of the Utopia art movement: the "outer" art world: introduction; Art dealers and their networks: Rodney Gooch, Marc Gooch and Janet Pierce - their network; Donald and Janet Holt; Tim Jennings and the Mbantua Gallery network; Art coordinators and their networks; Hank Ebes and his network; Conclusion -- Part II: Agency of artists : Interactions with the art world; Structures and art facilities in Utopia: the art centre model and its failings in Utopia; Constraints of everyday life in Utopia and its impacts on the creation of artworks -- Art dealers and their relationships with Utopia artists: Dealers of fine art: excursus: Christopher Hodges - an example of a fine art dealer; Dealers of commodity art; Excursus: an example of an art-as-commodity dealer: Tim Jennings - gallery owner and art dealer; Dealers in between categories: Donald and Janet Holt; Relationships between art dealers and artists; Relationships between art dealers; One-on-one-artist-dealer relationships and the rise of the solo artist; Conclusion -- Art practices in Utopia: introduction; What is an artist?; Artists and "occasional art producers"; Quality markers; What do artists paint for whom?; Artists as agents; Conclusion -- Part III: The diversity of artworks: Three currents in Utopia art: everyday life in art from Utopia: introduction; Bushtucker and bush medicine stories; Narrative paintings: children's story books and the Altyerr hunting series, camp scenes, massacre paintings, Captain Cook series, football paintings and sculptures; The everyday in sculptures; Conclusion -- Ritual art from Utopia: introduction; Awely and women's ceremonies: different approaches to awely and women's ceremonies, painting awely on bodies and canvas, awey sculptures; Men's rituals : men's body designs and ritual sculptures; Kwertaty and atham-areny spirit sculptures : kwertaty and atham-areny spirit sculptures; Conclusion -- Abstraction in art from Utopia: introduction; Bushtucker stories; Dreaming stories; Conclusion -- Life, art, career and visual repertoire of Emily Kam Kngwarray : introduction; Who was Emily Kam Kngwarray?; The discourse of the art world around Kngwarray's art; Themes, form and innovation; Subject matter, themes and topics; Conclusion -- Emily Kam Kngwarray and the artists of Alhalker : introduction; Emily Kam Kngwarray's painting school?; Alhalker artists; Emily Kam Kngwarray's legacy; Conclusion -- Appendix : collections visited from March 2008 until December 2011; Fieldwork highlights

Dimensions

30 cm

Extent

• xxxiii, 373 pages
• 1 cd-rom

Governing access note

Open access - Reading ; Open copying for private study, Closed quotation. Not for inter library loan

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Author

Media category

• unmediated
• computer

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Other physical details

• coloured illustrations, maps
• coloured illustrations, maps

Record ID

u449298

Stock number

MAR14/029