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Painting culture : the making of an Aboriginal high art

by Fred R. Myers

This study examines the transformation of Central Australian acrylic dot painting into an internationally recognised high-art movement. It traces the history of the genre's reception by global galleries and collectors over the past thirty years.

Accession 21919 ISBN 9780822329497 Publisher Duke University Press
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Tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic "dot" paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors. -- blurb

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