Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: From ethnoaesthetics to art history
  • Truth or beauty: the revelatory regime of a Pintupi painting
  • Practices of painting: a local history and a vexed intersection
  • The aesthetic function and the practice of Pintupi painting: a local art history
  • Making a market: cultural policy and modernity in the outback
  • Burned out, outback: art advisers working between two worlds
  • The "industry": exhibition success and economic rationalization
  • After the fall: in the arts industry
  • Materializing culture and the new internationalism
  • Performing aboriginality at the Asia Society Gallery
  • Postprimitivism: lines of tension in the making of aboriginal high art
  • Unsettled business
  • Recontextualizations: the traffic in culture
  • Appendix: A short history of Papunya Tula exhibition, 1971-1985.