Artlink Indigenous #1 <BR> Beauty and Terror

Artlink Indigenous #1
Beauty and Terror

vol 31 no 2, 2011


Guest co-editors Daniel Browning and Stephanie Radok.
A bumper annual survey of current developments and issues in this rich and diverse field. Artlink Indigenous: Beauty and Terror 2011 follows in the footsteps of the groundbreaking blak on blak issue of 2010 with abundant images, profiles of contemporary Indigenous artists, analysis of exhibitions of Aboriginal art in Australia and overseas, and polemics on the politics of Aboriginal art. Writers include Larissa Behrendt, Greg Lehman, Brenda Croft, Ian McLean, Tom Mosby, Margo Neale, Una Rey, Georges Petitjean, Simon Wright and Christian Thompson.


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Ben McKeown: Sunshine and Lollipops

Daniel Browning, Feature

Melbourne-based Ben McKeown was the overall winner of the 2011 Victorian Indigenous Art Award with a mysterious photograph called Untitled of an Aboriginal man concealing hinself behind two heavy boomernags. McKeown's artwork is inspired by a quest for belonging, by the genealogical researches of the anthropologist Norman Tindale, by the city and the suburbs.



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