That is an OK example of International Art English. What it says in everyday speech is that Aboriginal art looks like some modernist abstraction and can be appreciated as such, aside from whatever symbolic function it had for it makers. Fits my universal rule: Everything looks like something else. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, September 24, 2012 5:15:34 PM Subject: "The creation of Aboriginal art for an international market is poignantly paradigmatic of the modernist commodification of (fine) art in a very specific sense: as the abstraction and extraction--the reification--of particular visual or optical proper "The creation of Aboriginal art for an international market is poignantly paradigmatic of the modernist commodification of (fine) art in a very specific sense: as the abstraction and extraction--the reification--of particular visual or optical properties of indigenous cultural practices. The effect is to make such abstractions consonant with late modernist (Western) artistic formalism which has its roots in Christian theories of images." https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&noj=1&q=%22The+creation+of+Aboriginal+art +for+an+international+market+is+poignantly%22&oq=%22The+creation+of+Aborigina l+art+for+an+international+market+is+poignantly%22&gs_l=serp.3...147489.16208 8.0.163326.283.37.0.0.0.3.320.932.0j2j0j2.4.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.1R_ipl7s92M
