Tim Rowse
Tim Rowse is Professor Emeritus at Western Sydney University and Editorial Fellow at the National Centre for Biography, the Australian National University. He has recently finished writing a book about Australia’s relationship with Indigenous Australians since Federation, to be published in 2018 by NewSouth Press.
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Sheer Pleasure: Aboriginal Art and Australian Society
This is not a study of Aboriginal art but of the way that Aboriginal art has been written and spoken about, mostly in Australia, since the 1970s. Fisher’s object is not only ‘art criticism’, as that phrase is usually understood, but also policy discourse in which Aboriginal art is understood to be a means to an end.’
Mar. 2017 •
Art and artists • Non-fiction