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Author Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976.

Title Aboriginal paintings from Australia / Charles P. Mountford
Published [London] : Collins Unesco, 1964
1964

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB SPCBC  709.0110994 Mou/Apf  LIB USE ONLY
 MELB  709.0110994 Mou/Apf  AVAILABLE
Description 24 pages, 28 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 17 cm
Series Fontana Unesco art books
Fontana UNESCO art books.
Summary Explains the Australian aborigines' artistic production is often connected with very ancient forms of art going back to the palaeolithic age but more particulary with the mesolithic age. This analogy can be explained because it seems that the way of life and the beliefs of these peoples link them with prehistoric man
Notes From Turner Collection
Bibliography Includes bibliography
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Art
Aboriginal Australians.
Art -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land
Art, Aboriginal Australian.
Art, Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Aboriginal artists
Aboriginal Australians -- Art.
Bark painting -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
Painting, Aboriginal Australian.
Author Beryl Phillips Indigenous Collection
LC no. 66044915