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Art from the land : dialogues with the Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Australian Aboriginal art / edited by Howard Morphy and Margo Smith Boles.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Charlottesville, Va. : Michelago : University of Virginia ; MSquared, 1999Description: vi, 266 pages : colour illustrations, portraits ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0646370871
  • 9780646370873
  • 0957713509
  • 9780957713505
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.0399150074755
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Australian Aboriginal art -- 2. Flesh, bone, and spirit: Western Arnhem Land bark painting -- 3. Life through art: Religion and society in eastern Arnhem Land -- 4. The land is full of signs: Central north east Arnhem Land art -- 5. Wagilak and Djang'kawu: Ancestral paintings in the public domain -- 6. Touching the land: Towards an aesthetic of Balgo contemporary painting -- 7. What an acrylic can mean: The meta-ritualistic resonances of a central desert painting -- 8. Aesthetics and practice: A local art history of Pintupi painting -- Notes on the contributors -- Notes on copyright -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Australian Aboriginal art -- 2. Flesh, bone, and spirit: Western Arnhem Land bark painting -- 3. Life through art: Religion and society in eastern Arnhem Land -- 4. The land is full of signs: Central north east Arnhem Land art -- 5. Wagilak and Djang'kawu: Ancestral paintings in the public domain -- 6. Touching the land: Towards an aesthetic of Balgo contemporary painting -- 7. What an acrylic can mean: The meta-ritualistic resonances of a central desert painting -- 8. Aesthetics and practice: A local art history of Pintupi painting -- Notes on the contributors -- Notes on copyright -- Index.

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