Aboriginal art / Wally Caruana.
Material type: TextSeries: World of artPublisher: New York : Thames and Hudson, 1993Description: 216 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0500202648
- 9780500202647
- 704.039915 20
- N7401 .C37 1993
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 704.039915 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A191874B |
Includes bibliographical references (page 209) and index.
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Patterns of power: Arnhem Land and its surrounds -- Ch. 3. The art of place and journey: the desert -- Ch. 4. Land of the Wandjina: the Kimberley -- Ch. 5. Diversity: North Queensland and the Torres Strait Islands -- Ch. 6. Artists in the town and city -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Select Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Glossary -- Index.
Survey of the work of Australia's indigenous artists which shows how the events of the Dreaming and their significance are embodied in artistic works covering a wide range of media from painting and sculpture to printmaking and textile design. Features numerous colour and black-and-white plates, a bibliography, a list of illustrations, a glossary and an index. The author has been the curator of Aboriginal Art at the Australian National Gallery since 1984.
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