Not offered in 1996. No student may receive credit for both this subject and 111-227/327 Aboriginal Art and Culture 16.7 2nd and 3rd years Dr Roger Benjamin. Three hours of lectures, tutorials or seminars a week. In addition to the above, students completing this subject should:

• have a familiarity with problems in the interpretation of Aboriginal art and culture in post-colonial Australia.
• have a broad knowledge of pictorial practices of contemporary Aboriginal art.

Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and the politics of representation. Starting with Namatjira and the Papunya movement, the subject surveys recent acrylic and bark painting, and the urban Koorie painting, photography, and film. Issues such as copyright and appropriation, the art market, women's art practice, curating and museums policy are debated in the subject. Written work which may comprise class papers, essays, visual test or take-home examinations totalling about 5,000 words. Sutton P (ed) Dreamings The Art of Aboriginal Australia Viking 1988