Landscape as Cultural and Political Process in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art
Arts
HAVC 195-01 Independent Study Senior Thesis
This project, "Landscape as Cultural and Political Process in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art: Mapping Land, Body, History and Society in the Art of Emily Kngwarreye and Fiona Foley," is part of an independent study for a research fellowship with History of Art and Visual Culture professor Stacy Kamehiro. The original goal was to examine the role of Aboriginal women in Australian indigenous art production, and after one quarter of research this topic expanded to an exploration of female artists in various areas of knowledge and cultural production. The purpose of this project is to introduce a new way to look at an art form that has received so much attention in the international art world, yet has remained static in confined categories such as 'indigenous art.' This projects suggests that Aboriginal art is more layered, mapping the indigenous Australian experience across various ideological spaces, or landscapes.
