TY - JOUR
T1 - Disturbances in the field
T2 - Exhibiting Aboriginal art in the US
AU - Myers, Fred
N1 - Funding Information:
The program in New York was also longer, stretched throughout the semester, with funding from the Wilkersons as well as NYU. To build interest, related events were programmed at other institutions in the city with which we had worked in the past – in particular, the Museum of Modern Art and the National Museum of the American Indian.
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - This article considers the role of varied agents in the circulation of Papunya art across the relations between the Australian and the international art fields. My analysis follows an exhibition that took place at New York University's Grey Gallery in 2009, tracing in particular the international circulation of the highly valued 'early Papunya boards'. By focusing on the unsettled nature of Aboriginal art's circulation and the problem of producing its value socially in a world that is not consolidated, I consider Bourdieu's 'field of cultural production' as still becoming. Finally, my argument should caution against assuming that 'antipodean fields' might be addressed as autonomous from international agents, circuits of distribution and so on. It also questions Bourdieu's tendency to treat national art fields as independent.
AB - This article considers the role of varied agents in the circulation of Papunya art across the relations between the Australian and the international art fields. My analysis follows an exhibition that took place at New York University's Grey Gallery in 2009, tracing in particular the international circulation of the highly valued 'early Papunya boards'. By focusing on the unsettled nature of Aboriginal art's circulation and the problem of producing its value socially in a world that is not consolidated, I consider Bourdieu's 'field of cultural production' as still becoming. Finally, my argument should caution against assuming that 'antipodean fields' might be addressed as autonomous from international agents, circuits of distribution and so on. It also questions Bourdieu's tendency to treat national art fields as independent.
KW - Aboriginal acrylic painting
KW - Bourdieu
KW - fields of cultural production
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U2 - 10.1177/1440783313481520
DO - 10.1177/1440783313481520
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84878196276
SN - 1440-7833
VL - 49
SP - 151
EP - 172
JO - Journal of Sociology
JF - Journal of Sociology
IS - 2-3
ER -