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Aboriginal art / Howard Morphy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Art & ideasPublisher: London [England] : Phaidon, 1998Description: 447 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0714837520
  • 9780714837529
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.039915 22
LOC classification:
  • N7401 .M65 1998
Contents:
A journey to recognition: the 'discovery' of Aboriginal art -- A lasting record: rock art as history -- Foundations: art, religion and the Dreaming -- A totemic landscape: art, maps and people -- The kinship of art: art and society -- The power of art: art, ritual and aesthetics -- Engaging the other: art and the survival of Aboriginal society -- Transformations: the contemporary art of central Australia -- Settler Australia: the survival of art in adversity -- Documents of change: the art of William Barak and Tommy McRae -- Contemporary developments: Aboriginal art and the avant-garde.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 704.039915 MOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A173881B

Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 434-439) and index.

A journey to recognition: the 'discovery' of Aboriginal art -- A lasting record: rock art as history -- Foundations: art, religion and the Dreaming -- A totemic landscape: art, maps and people -- The kinship of art: art and society -- The power of art: art, ritual and aesthetics -- Engaging the other: art and the survival of Aboriginal society -- Transformations: the contemporary art of central Australia -- Settler Australia: the survival of art in adversity -- Documents of change: the art of William Barak and Tommy McRae -- Contemporary developments: Aboriginal art and the avant-garde.

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