Week 11 - Postmodernism IV: Decolonising Modernism

Recommended reading:

• Janet Malcom, girl of the zeitgeist, New Yorker

• back and fourth argument

Primitivism:

• cannot be divorced from definitions

• first used to describe the Greeks in contrast of Romans

• Greeks seen as full of energy

Ernst Gombrich

Jacques-Louis David, The intervention of the Sabine Women, 1799, 385cm x 522cmm

• His students were studying Greek pottery

• His students said it was far too much, they are disappointed

• neo-classical artwork

Reading One

• unknown makers and very well known makers

• lack of context for the non-western work, poorly reflected the understanding of non-western art

Famous art controversy:

• Imagined context (alludes to rituals and worship of an icon)

• represented to flatter the waster context

Aboriginal art

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Anmatyerr people, Warlugulong, 1977, synthetic polymer paint, oil, natural earth pigments, binder on canvas 202cm x 337.5cm, NGA

• place of creation, papunya

• About a farther lighting a bushfire punishing sons for eating kangaroo

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri & Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri , Warlugulong (Anmatyerr, Central Desert Regon), 1976, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 168.5 × 170.5 cm, AGNSW

• Asked for permission to add to the composition (emu tracks)

Assignment

• don’t need the word count (could have one for the paragraph at the end of each paragraph)

• question on top of bib as well

• only write in the annotations