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Aboriginal art / Wally Caruana.

By:

Caruana, Wally [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: World of artPublisher: New York : Thames and Hudson, 1993Description: 216 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0500202648
9780500202647

Subject(s):

Art, Aboriginal Australian

DDC classification:

704.039915 20

LOC classification:

N7401 .C37 1993

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	704.039915 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A191874B

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Includes bibliographical references (page 209) and 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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