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Author Sayers, Andrew, 1957- author

Title Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century / Andrew Sayers ; with a foreword by Lin Onus and a chapter by Carol Cooper
Published Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with the National Gallery of Australia, 1994
Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with National Gallery of Australia, 1994

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Description xiv, 162 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm
Contents 1. Barak and the affirmation of tradition -- 2. Tommy McRae, Aboriginal artist -- 3. Drawing contemporary life -- 4. 'A taste for drawing' -- 5. 'The Dawn of Art' -- 6. Traditional visual culture in south-east Australia / Carol Cooper
Summary Andrew Sayers examines a considerable body of drawings produced by Aboriginal artists between 1803 and 1903. Never before collected as a genre, these works are retained in museums, libraries, or private hands and have rarely been displayed. Often regarded as inauthentic art because of their stylistic borrowings and fluctuations, they enjoy a unique status as products of the interaction between Aboriginal society and the British colonizers. The largest group of drawings comes from the hands of three artists--Tommy McCrae (c1823-1901), William Barak (c1824-1903), and Ulladulla Mickey (c1820-1891), who produced their drawings in the 1880s and 1890s. Visually these drawings are varied, but they possess many of the aesthetic qualities which characterize contemporary Aboriginal art, displaying intense vitality and an acute understanding of flora and fauna.--publisher
Analysis Visual arts By Australian aborigines
Aboriginal culture
Art
Australian painting
History, 1801-1900
Visual arts By Australian aborigines
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-156) and index
Subject Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- 19th century.
Aboriginal Australians in art.
Aboriginal Australians -- Art -- Exhibitions.
Aboriginal Australians -- Art -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
Aboriginal Australians -- Art.
Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Exhibitions.
Art, Aboriginal Australian -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
Art, Aboriginal Australian -- 19th century.
Art, Aboriginal Australian.
Artists -- Australian
Artists -- Australia -- Biography.
Drawing, Australian -- 19th century.
Painting, Australian -- Aboriginal artists
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Author Cooper, Carol, author
Onus, Lin, 1948-1996.
National Gallery of Australia.
LC no. 94225118
ISBN 0195533925 (hardback)
0195539958
9780195533927 (hardback)
9780195539950