Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Never before had anyone tried to invade Scotland from Down Under. But when Australia-based Elders IXL, makers of Foster's Lager, launched a hostile $2.7 billion takeover bid for Scottish & Newcastle Breweries in October, the Edinburgh company responded with a counterattack worthy of Robert Bruce. For the next two months, S & N will ship to 30 countries around the world 36 million bottles of its Newcastle Brown Ale with the labels printed upside down. "It's a symbolic way of saying hands off, thumbs down, keep away," explains managing director David Stephenson. S & N executives hope that publicity about...
...they did survive. There are more than 225,000 Aborigines living today, about 1.5% of Australia's population, and instead of dying out (as most whites around 1900 assumed they would), they are increasing their numbers. The fate of these people is now one of the prime moral dilemmas Australia faces. It has also made whites more aware of the realities of Aboriginal culture. For here is the oldest continuous tradition of visual art on earth (30,000 years at least, more than twice the age of the Lascaux Cave paintings), tenaciously maintained in the face of pressures from...
...strange that in the U.S., where every kind of primitive art from Nigerian to Alaskan has been exhaustively studied and consumed, so little attention has been paid to Aboriginal art. Something so old is very new -- at least in America. Hence the fascination of "Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia," on view at the Asia Society Galleries in New York City through Dec. 31. This show of some 100 paintings and carvings, the older ones in earth colors on bark, the more recent in modern acrylic pigments on canvas or panel, was mainly lent by the South Australian Museum...
...deeds of each of these ancestors, in creating and sustaining the world, form an immense narrative beside which the Mahabharata is a mere short story, and all of them are embedded in the sacred sites that cover Australia. (From the Aboriginal point of view, in fact, Australia is one big sacred site.) Hence as curator Peter Sutton puts it in the catalog, "The land is already a narrative -- an artifact of intellect -- before people represent it. There is no wilderness...
...Manhattan a show illuminates the art of Australia' s Aborigines, who evoke their Dreamings, or spirit ancestors, in works of striking beauty...