Picking at the Paint
Viewing Contemporary Bushman Art asArt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2163192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shanade B Barnaba, Shanade Barnaba (0000-0001-9915-9393, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 427-442 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08949468.2010.508980 |
| OpenAlex | W1971314220 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 9 |
In most writing on contemporary Bushman art the art is discussed as a tool of development, a tourism endeavor and an income generator. While these are aims both legitimate and beneficial to the communities involved, they also work (implicitly yet effectively) to separate the art, artist and subsequently the community out of which the art is produced from “the rest of us,” defining these communities as “other.” This article attempts to engage with contemporary Bushman art as art objects. Using criteria of judgment based on a functional semiotics of art, two works will be analyzed to prove that the works may be discussed as Art. The premise is that once people recognize the aesthetic intelligence imbued in these artworks they will be able to engage with the work in a way that is similarly intelligent and contemporary. The art and its people will then stand a better chance of being accepted into the realm of the everyday as opposed to being relegated to the sarcophagi of history. Once taken from this starting position, goals of community development and tourism endeavors linked to indigenous art can become that much more beneficial and life-changing for the communities concerned
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Art methodology · Contemporary art · Epistemology · Exhibition · Indigenous · Performance art · Premise · Realm · Sociology · Tourism · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History
Traditional and Contemporary Art of Aboriginal Australia
Art And Agency
Believing and seeing
Contested images, contexted texts
NGOs, 'Bushmen' and Double Vision
Contemporary Bushman Art, Identity Politics and the Primitivism Discourse
What is Anthropological Enlightenment? Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,46 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |