Laura Fisher: Aboriginal Art and Australian Society: Hope and Disenchantment

Review article

'Sheer Pleasure' by

Tim Rowse

Sydney Review of Books 28 March, 2017

'Her book is a superb demonstration of the value of Bourdieu’s concept of field in describing a sensibility as complex as settler-colonial auto-critique.'

 

Aboriginal Art and Australian Society: Hope and Disenchantment
by Laura Fisher
Anthem Press
312pp
Published May, 2016
ISBN 9781783085316

 

 

'Like any tightrope walker, Laura Fisher has a finely attuned sense of balance. Her clear-sighted analysis of the historical record takes her beyond the moral high ground and ideological posturing that for decades have stifled intelligent discussion of the mixed blessings of Aboriginal art’s success. This book should be essential reading for anyone to whom Indigenous art is more than a just a pretty picture.'

—Vivien Johnson, former NewSouth Global Professor, University of New South Wales and author of 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists'

http://www.anthempress.com/aboriginal-art-and-australian-society