# 46102
MARCON, Marco and Suzanne DAVIES (eds.)
Praxis M, no. 17 : Aboriginal art and institutions
Fremantle, WA : Praxis M., 1987. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, 47 pp., illustrated in b/w; a very good copy.
This special issue of the art journal Praxis M makes for some very interesting reading, when we consider the ways in which Aboriginal art has been presented and consumed have evolved since the 80s. Contributors include Vivien Johnson (Our appropriation is your dispossession); Henrietta Fourmile (Museums and Aborigines: a case study in contemporary scientific colonialism); John Stanton (Tradition and innovation in contemporary Aboriginal art); Adrian Marrie (The politics of Aboriginal heritage); Bernice Murphy (Curating contemporary Aboriginal art – includes section on Papunya).