| Description |
viii, 142 pages : color illustrations, 2 color maps ; 28 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction: Painting the land story, National Museum of Australia / Luke Taylor -- The art of the Kurirr-Kurirr ceremony: the Kimberley, Western Australia / Kim Akerman -- Rainbows in the water: Western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory / Luke Taylor -- Manggalili art and the promised land: Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory / Howard Murphy -- Anapalaku walka, Ernabella Design: a women's art movement, South Australia / Ute Eickelkamp -- Boomalli: from little things big things grow: Bomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative, Sydney / Brenda L. Croft -- Tradition in contemporary form: the Torres Strait Islands / Mary Bani |
| Summary |
For many indigenous Australians the act of painting is a kind of personal religious communion between artist and the ancestral creation beings that made the country. This sense of ancestral precedent is most strongly felt in this collection of illustrated essays which focus on western and eastern Arnhem Land |
| Analysis |
Art of indigenous peoples (Australia ) |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-139) and index |
| Subject |
National Museum of Australia -- Exhibitions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Painting.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Art.
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Art, Torres Strait Islander.
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Artists, Aboriginal Australian.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Art -- Exhibitions.
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Painting, Aboriginal Australian.
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Art, Australian -- Aboriginal artists -- Exhibitions
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Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Exhibitions.
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Torres Strait Islanders -- Art -- Exhibitions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Painting -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Aboriginal Australian.
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Torres Strait Islanders -- Art.
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Art, Australian -- Aboriginal artists
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Art, Aboriginal Australian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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| SUBJECT |
Arnhem Land (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007377
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Essays.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Taylor, Luke.
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National Museum of Australia.
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| LC no. |
00341633 |
| ISBN |
0642565449 |
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