ABSTRACT
The authenticity conditions that are appropriate to Western painting are inappropriate when applied to classical Aboriginal painting. Nelson Goodman might have been prepared to accept that the authenticity conditions for autographic works are inappropriate in this context. Susan McCulloch-Uehlin presented the scandals, it is the difference in the criteria for authenticity in terms of a producer of a work, and criteria for authenticity in terms of the authority behind the work that is 'causing untold confusion and obfuscation in this art movement'. Arthur C. Danto acknowledges that primitive art has a religious function or utility. Danto, might think that primitive art is a variety of art because its function is not profane, but religious. Religious art is important to the makers and will be central to their lives; it expresses 'deeply-held ideas about their lives, their mythic history, the ghosts of their ancestors, and their values'.
