Resumen de Post-Western poetics: postmodern appropriation art in Australia
For the first time, the exhibition "Magicians of the Earth" (Pompidou, 1989) put Western artists in competition with large numbers of non-Western ones. This new globalism willfully disgregarded a key feature of the modernist period, in which non-Western art was quarantined from the discourse of contemporary art. However, modernism had been challenged a full decade before "Magicians of the Earth", with the advent of postmodernism. With this in mind, this essay examines the relationship between the post-Western transformations of globalism and postmodern appropriation art, through a case study of four Australian artist born in the mid-twentieth century: Richard Bell, Gordon Bennett, Michael Nelson Jagamara and Imants Tillers.
