| ISBN |
9781921556432 (paperback) |
| Author |
Newstead, Adrian (author.) |
| Title |
The dealer is the devil : an insider's history of the Aboriginal art trade / Adrian Newstead with Ruth Hessey. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Blackheath, N.S.W. : Brandl & Schlesinger, 2013. |
| ©2014 |
| Description |
520 pages : illustrations, portraits (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index and timeline. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: p. 504-506. |
| Contents |
Book One: INITIATION ; 1 Hot-Wired ; 2 Old Cowboys ; 3 Songlines ; 4 Cultural Revival is Survival ; Kith and Kin. |
| Book Two: BEYOND THE HORIZON ; 6 Cave Painting ; 7 Artefacts - Eastern Australia ; 8 The First Aboriginal 'Artists ; 9 Early Collectors. |
| Book Three: THE DEVELOPING MARKET ; 10 Anthropologists. Missionaries and Ethnographers ; 11 Early Collections ; 12 The Passport to Arnhem Land ; 13 Early Bark Painters of Western and Central Arnhem Land ; 14 North East Arnhem Land ; 15 Queensland - The Sunshine State ; 16 Land of the Wandjina. |
| Book Four: GO WEST YOUNG MAN ; 17 The Birth of a Home-Grown Art Industry ; 18 Home of the Honey Ant ; 19 Early Desert Masters ; 20 Creating a Market - Desert Art's Takeover ; 21 The End of the 1970s - A Snapshot ; 22 Origins of Art in the East Kimberley. |
| Book Five: THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGG ; 23 Arnhem Land ; 24 Spread of Western Desert Art ; 25 For the Love of Artefacts ; 26 Don't Bring Your Love to Town ; 27 Across the Tanami - The Emerging Warlpiri Artists ; 28 Eastern Desert – Utopia ; 29 Balgo Hills ; 30 On the Road ; 31 Arnhem Land Artists of Renown ; 32 Bad Balanda Blood ; 33 Urban Art ; 34 The Mainstreaming of Aboriginal Art ; 35 The Demise of The Company ; 36 An Accident Waiting To Happen. |
| Book Six: HIGHWAY TO HELL ; 37 The Advent of 'Authenticity· ; 38 Star Quality ; 39 The Birth of the Secondary Market ; 40 Across the Philosophical Divide - The Developing Market Infrastructure ; 41 Seriously Collectable ; 42 Roving in Thomas Town ; 43 Fakery ; 44 Authorship ; 45 Slander ; 46 Independence ; 47 Attribution ; 48 Toyota Dreaming ; 49 Bogus! ; 50 Ownership ; 51 Fin de Siecle. |
| Book Seven: ART GOES INTO OVERDRIVE ; 52 Fun and Games ; 53 Desert Blush ; 54 Pride and Prejudice ; 55 The Star Has Left the Building - The Rise and Rise of Tommy Watson ; 56 Fire, Fire, Burning Bright ; 57 Status Anxiety ; 58 Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? ; 59 Une Guerre de Territoire ; 60 Off the Beaten Track ; 61 Twinkle Twinkle, Tinkle Tinkle ; 62 Auction Wars ; 63 Renewing the Dreaming ; 64 Reccon Silly Nation ; 65 It's Not Just Black and White ; 66 Imagine |
| Epilogue -- Author's Note – Endnotes -- Timeline – Abbreviations – Bibliography – Acknowledgements -- Photographic Credits and Copyright – Index. |
| Subjects |
Art, Aboriginal Australian |
| Art, Aboriginal Australian -- History |
| Art, Aboriginal Australian -- 20th century -- Economic aspects |
| Art, Aboriginal Australian -- 21st century -- Economic aspects |
| Art -- Economic aspects |
| Art -- Collectors and collecting |
| Art as an investment |
| Cultural property -- Protection -- Australia |
| Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Hessey, Ruth (editor.) |
| Call number |
709.994 NEW |
