"Fred R. Myers has been in a unique position as a participant-observer of an art movement from its local beginnings to its international recognition. This book is a work of enormous significance, relevant to debates in contemporary art theory and cultural studies as well as in anthropology."--Howard Morphy, Australian National University

Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction: From Ethnoaesthetics to Art History
1. Truth or Beauty: The Revelatory Regime of Pintupi Painting
2. Practices of Painting: A Local History and a Vexed Intersection
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3. The Aesthetic Function and the Practice of Pintupi Painting: A Local Art History
4. Making a Market: Cultural Policy and Modernity in the Outback
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5. Burned Out, Outback: Art Advisers Working between Two Worlds
6. The “Industry”: Exhibition Success and Economic Rationalization
7. After the Fall: In the Arts Industry
8. Materializing Culture and the New Internationalism
9. Performing Aboriginality at the Asia Society Gallery
10. Postprimitivism: Lines of Tension in the Making of Aboriginal High Art
11. Unsettled Business
12. Recontextualizations: The Traffic in Culture
Appendix: A Short History of Papunya Tula Exhibition, 1971-1985
Notes
References
Index