The art of dreaming: Merleau-Ponty and Petyarre on flesh expressing a world [Paper in: Art and Ecology.]

Diprose focuses on the dot painting of Western and Central Desert artist Kathleen Petyarre, the Dreaming. she contends on the impact of the painting to her and the politics of the impact of the painting. The Dreaming is, for Indigenous Australians, the era of creation when the Ancestors ordered the...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Cultural studies review 2006-03, Vol.12 (1), p.32-43
Main Author:	Diprose, Rosalyn
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Aboriginal art Aboriginal artists Aboriginal Australians Aboriginal culture Aboriginal religion Arnkerrth (Mountain Devil Lizard) Dreaming Culture Merleau-Ponty, Maurice Native peoples Petyarre, Kathleen Philosophy Politics Visual artists Women artists
Online Access:	Get full text
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Description
Summary:	Diprose focuses on the dot painting of Western and Central Desert artist Kathleen Petyarre, the Dreaming. she contends on the impact of the painting to her and the politics of the impact of the painting. The Dreaming is, for Indigenous Australians, the era of creation when the Ancestors ordered the cosmos and created the world 'out of themselves', a world with a meaning and 'moral authority outside the individual will and outside human creation'.
ISSN:	1446-8123 1837-8692