{"product_id":"remote-avantgarde-9780822360551","title":"Remote AvantGarde","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRemote Avant-Garde\u003c\/i\u003e Jennifer Loureide Biddle interrogates the avant-garde art of Aboriginal communities in the Australian desert, showing how it is an act of survival in the face of state occupation and a means to revive at-risk vernacular languages and cultural heritages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[W]ith a breathtaking focus on the new, the emergent, the hybrid and the innovative (213), the book’s artworks, and the writing itself, bristle with energy.... This is a refreshingly sensitive and nuanced account that is a must-read not only for those interested in the specificities of emerging Indigenous artistic traditions in the Northern Territory and elsewhere, but also for those interested in the ongoing political, cultural and economic processes of so-called ‘settler’ societies across Australia and beyond.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Peter Kilroy * LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRemote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art under Occupation\u003c\/i\u003e, by Jennifer Loureide Biddle, is a welcome addition to the literature on Indigenous Australian art, and more broadly to anthropologies of art, Indigenous Australia, and global Indigenous arts and aesthetics. I heartily recommend it to anyone in those fields, and would happily teach with it in anthropology, art history, art\/artworlds, and museum studies.\" -- Sabra G. Thorner * Anthropological Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Jennifer Loureide Biddle has dared to deal with a daunting, dazzling array of 'remote' art in its multiple forms and complex contexts. The result is a profound, far from dispassionate book which does justice to an extraordinary canon of art.\" -- Noelene Cole * Journal of Anthropological Research *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRemote Avant-Garde\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly revitalizes the literature on Aboriginal art by attending to fascinating experimental art practices and a fresh aesthetics emerging in remote Aboriginal communities. . . . [It] should be read not only by scholars interested in Aboriginal art but also anyone wanting to understand creative forms of political agency in colonial and postcolonial contexts.\" -- Rosita Henry * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  vii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xiii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. The Imperative to Experiment  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Humanitarian Imperialism  21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Biliteracies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Tangentyere Artists  41\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. June Walkutjukurr Richards  77\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Rhonda Unurupa Dick  91\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Hapticities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Tjanpi Desert Weavers  109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Warnayaka Art: \u003ci\u003eYurlpa\u003c\/i\u003e  139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Yarrenyty Arltere Artists  159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Happenings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. \u003ci\u003eYiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route\u003c\/i\u003e  181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Warburton Arts Project  197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: (Not) a \"Lifestyle Choice\"  217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Further Resources  233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e References  235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  257","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406093132119,"sku":"9780822360551","price":75.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822360551.jpg?v=1730494501","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/remote-avantgarde-9780822360551","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}