{"product_id":"daniel-boyd-treasure-island-hardcover","title":"Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIsobel Parker Philip\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eErin Vink\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDaniel Browning\u003c\/b\u003e (With)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Boyd (b. 1982) is one of Australia's most acclaimed artists. His practice is internationally recognized for its engagement with the colonial history of the Australia-Great Ocean (Pacific) region. Drawing upon intermingled discourses of science, religion, and aesthetics, Boyd's work reveals the complexities through which political, cultural, and personal memory is composed. Boyd's work traces his cultural and visual heritage--both Aboriginal and ni-Vanuatu--in relation to broader histories of colonial settlement and the Western art canon. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking with an idiosyncratic painting technique that partially obscures the composition, Boyd refigures archival imagery, art historical references, and his family photographs, forcing us to contend with histories that have been overlooked and hidden from view.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel Boyd: Treasure Island\u003c\/i\u003e unpacks the ways in which Boyd holds a lens to colonial history, explores multiplicity within narratives, and interrogates blackness as a form of First Nations resistance. It provides a thoughtful and thought-provoking response to the current moment, when critical dialogues on ideas of community, connectivity, and cultural repatriation carry special urgency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith new writing by the exhibition curators and commissioned First Nations authors, the book offers critical insight into Boyd's practice as well as creative and experimental responses to his work by poets Jazz Money and Ellen van Neerven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsobel Parker Philip is the senior curator of contemporary Australian art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She has curated or co-curated many exhibitions, including The National: \u003ci\u003eNew Australian Art and Shadow Catchers\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has been published extensively. Erin Vink, Ngiyampaa, is curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She has recently co-curated the exhibitions \u003ci\u003eExposure: Native Art and Political Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe National: New Australian Art\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLonging for Home\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a widely published writer on Aboriginal art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 10.8 x 8.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 30, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47401128657117,"sku":"9781741741599","price":77.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/ZXRaY1kvSFNkeHhYNzRPL2w4S1BSQT09.webp?v=1771081721","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/daniel-boyd-treasure-island-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}