Australian Art and its Aboriginal Histories

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1 Patrick Wolfe, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native’, Journal of Genocide Research 8, no. 4 (2006): 387–409.

2 Email correspondence from Terry Smith, Richard Broome, Vincent Megaw and Roger Benjamin to Caroline Jordan, September 2019.

3 Wally Caruana, ‘21.1 Black Art on White Walls? Institutional Responses to Indigenous Australian Art’, in The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, eds Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2000), 456.

4 Daniel Thomas, ‘S and D at NGVA [Brook Andrew’s Sexy and Dangerous (1996) Opens the First Floor Exhibition Installation at the Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, at Federation Square]’, Art Monthly Australia 157 (March 2003): 27–32.

5 See Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, Papunya: A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement (Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, 2004).

6 T. Smith, Transformations in Australian Art, vol. 2 (Sydney: Craftsman House, 2002), 9.

7 R. Bell, ‘Bell’s Theorem: Aboriginal Art – It’s a White Thing!’, http://kooriweb.org/foley/great/art/bell.html (accessed 8 August 2023).

8 Steve Dow, ‘The Uncompromising Art of Australia’s Richard Bell: “There’s got to be a day of reckoning”’, The Guardian, 4 June 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jun/04/the-uncompromising-art-of-australias-richard-bell-theres-got-to-be-a-day-of-reckoning

9 Thomas A. Darragh and V. Ruth Pullin, ‘Eugene von Guérard and the Ethnological Museum Berlin: Correspondence 1878–1880’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, vol. 135 (1–2) (Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, in press).

10 Susan Lowish, Rethinking Australia’s Art History: The Challenge of Aboriginal Art (London: Routledge, 2018), 136–8.