Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art

$50.00 at Seattle Art Museum.

Since the 1980s, Indigenous Australian art has captivated the art world and impressed itself on the contemporary imagination. Rattling Spears tells the story of how this once ignored but utterly distinctive art has become some of the most popular and widely collected in the world.  Before the Second World War, Indigenous Australian art had often been classified as 'primitive'. This book explains how Indigenous Australian art escaped the ethnographic and souvenir markets to find a place in the art world from…