Kitsch or Kind: Representations of Aborigines in Popular Art

Taste Meets Kitsch

Vol 15 no 4, 1995

Guest editor Juliette Peers. A bold and challenging issue that examines taste and kitsch, art beyond the 'canon', real Australian bad taste, Aboriginality and kitsch, kitschophrenia, ritual, rites and performance, fairies, dolls and trading cards. Only for the really bold!

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Author: Mr Glenn R Cooke, feature

Much contemporary Aboriginal art functions in the inappropriate melding of two visual art traditions and is kitsch within the given meaning within the article.

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Articles in this issue

Artrave: Artrave
Book review: It's Things That Matter
Editorial: Wer ist Unschuldig?
Feature: Bigs R Us
Feature: Boys and Girls: Pierre et Gilles' Sydney Mardi Gras Poster
Feature: Bruising as R & D
Feature: Cakes for Show: The Last Great Undigested Art
Feature: Delma's Collection
Feature: Destiny Deacon: It's Been Ages Since We Last Marched
Feature: If Aquarium Gravel Is So Bad For You, How Come It Tastes So Good?
Feature: Image Bank
Feature: Kings of Kitsch: Big Things
Feature: Kitsch or Kind: Representations of Aborigines in Popular Art
Feature: Kitschoprenia
Feature: Kitschville - The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
Feature: Made in WA: A Sculptor's Alternative Practice
Feature: Mary MacKillop Kitsch
Feature: Motor-Cross Dressing
Feature: Museum of Shopping
Feature: Not Afraid of Flying: Fairies and Femocrats
Feature: Pretty Baby
Feature: Tamworth
Feature: The Black Swan of Western Australian-ness
Feature: The Other Big F-Word
Feature: The Taste Factor
Feature: Thought Police Versus Life: Extracts from an Interview with Ray Hughes
Feature: When Is A Door Not A Door?
Feature: Worms and Roses
Review: A Dual Aesthetic
Review: Actions Louder Than Words
Review: Continuous History
Review: Ethereal Days
Review: Inflecting the Museum
Review: Making and Breaking
Review: Monstrous Change Observed
Review: Reathing, Writhing and Fainting in Coils: Richard Grayson
Review: Teaching Aids