Pottery as vessel or surface: a commentary on three Australian Indigenous pottery workshops
Ceramics as functional vessel, introduced into Australian Aboriginal communities in the second half of the twentieth century, has not endured in the examples of potteries provided here. In two of the examples, while the Indigenous potters commenced making ‘vessels’, the emphasis for these artists so...
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description | Ceramics as functional vessel, introduced into Australian Aboriginal communities in the second half of the twentieth century, has not endured in the examples of potteries provided here. In two of the examples, while the Indigenous potters commenced making ‘vessels’, the emphasis for these artists soon became the surface, an extension of the earth, on which and through which traditional stories could be told. In the third example the pottery unfortunately failed, as paternalist management dictated a Western view of what the potters should produce. |
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spelling | doaj.art-238c54ecc70541aea2f9017085e029a12022-12-22T00:03:32ZengUniversité Toulouse - Jean JaurèsMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone2108-65592012-12-01710.4000/miranda.4363Pottery as vessel or surface: a commentary on three Australian Indigenous pottery workshopsPenelope ColletCeramics as functional vessel, introduced into Australian Aboriginal communities in the second half of the twentieth century, has not endured in the examples of potteries provided here. In two of the examples, while the Indigenous potters commenced making ‘vessels’, the emphasis for these artists soon became the surface, an extension of the earth, on which and through which traditional stories could be told. In the third example the pottery unfortunately failed, as paternalist management dictated a Western view of what the potters should produce.http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/4363Australian aboriginal artcontemporary ceramicsdreamingHermannsburgTiwi islandsBarambah pottery |
spellingShingle | Penelope Collet Pottery as vessel or surface: a commentary on three Australian Indigenous pottery workshops Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone Australian aboriginal art contemporary ceramics dreaming Hermannsburg Tiwi islands Barambah pottery |
title | Pottery as vessel or surface: a commentary on three Australian Indigenous pottery workshops |
title_full | Pottery as vessel or surface: a commentary on three Australian Indigenous pottery workshops |
title_fullStr | Pottery as vessel or surface: a commentary on three Australian Indigenous pottery workshops |
title_full_unstemmed | Pottery as vessel or surface: a commentary on three Australian Indigenous pottery workshops |
title_short | Pottery as vessel or surface: a commentary on three Australian Indigenous pottery workshops |
title_sort | pottery as vessel or surface a commentary on three australian indigenous pottery workshops |
topic | Australian aboriginal art contemporary ceramics dreaming Hermannsburg Tiwi islands Barambah pottery |
url | http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/4363 |
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