Rethinking Australia’s Art History

Author: Susan Lowish
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351049976
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
This book aims to redefine Australia’s earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category "Aboriginal art," tracing the term’s use through published literature in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Susan Lowish reveals how the idea of "Aboriginal art" developed in the European imagination, manifested in early literature, and became a distinct classification with its own criteria and form. Part of the larger story of Aboriginal/European engagement, this book provides a new vision for an Australian art history reconciled with its colonial origins and in recognition of what came before the contemporary phenomena of Aboriginal art.

Aboriginal Art of Australia

Author: Carol Finley
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822520764
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Describes the art of the Australian Aborigines including rock painting and engraving as well as sand and bark painting; also discusses the symbolism found in these works.

Australian Aboriginal Paintings

Author: Jennifer Isaacs
Publisher: New Holland Australia(AU)
ISBN: 9781864368031
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A collection of traditional Aboriginal paintings which spans decades and which displays the distinctive styles of two regions of Australia: the western desert and Arnhem Land. The paintings are simply presented to be easily appreciated, with brief notes on information provided by the artists themselves.

Indigenous Archives

Author: Darren Jorgensen
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781742589220
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 476

Book Description
The archive is a source of power. It takes control of the past, deciding which voices will be heard and which won't, how they will be heard and for what purposes. Indigenous archivists were at work well before the European Enlightenment arrived and began its own archiving. Sometimes at odds, other times not, these two ways of ordering the world have each learned from, and engaged with, the other. Colonialism has been a struggle over archives and its processes as much as anything else.The eighteen essays by twenty authors investigate different aspects of this struggle in Australia, from traditional Indigenous archives and their developments in recent times to the deconstruction of European archives by contemporary artists as acts of cultural empowerment. It also examines the use of archives developed for other reasons, such as the use of rainfall records to interpret early Papunya paintings. Indigenous Archives is the first overview of archival research in the production and understanding of Indigenous culture. Wide-ranging in its scope, it reveals the lively state of research into Indigenous histories and culture in Australia.

Aboriginal Art

Author: Wally Caruana
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500204658
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An updated and expanded edition of this classic survey, which has established itself as the superlative introduction to the full diversity of Aboriginal art.

Images of Power

Author: Judith Ryan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Kimberley art: strong in country and law - Kimberley languages - Figurative art of the North-west and Central Kimberley - Paddy Jaminji and the Gurirr Gurirr - The East Kimberley aesthetic - Art of Fitzroy Crossing - Art of Balgo - Kimberley art and material culture - Materials and techniques of the contemporary Kimberley artist.

Painting Culture

Author: Fred R. Myers
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822329497
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 444

Book Description
DIVThe history of the Australian Aboriginal painting movement from its local origins to its career in the international art market./div

McCulloch's Contemporary Aboriginal Art

Author: Susan McCulloch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980449426
Category : Art of indiginous people (Australia)
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
"A lavishly illustrated survey of Aboriginal art and the regions it is produced around Australia including Central and Western Deserts; The Kimberley and West; Top End and Arnhem Land; Queensland; Torres Strait Islands; Tasmania and southern states."--Provided by publisher.

Australian Aboriginal Art

Author: Australian National Gallery
Publisher: Gallery
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Selected works from the Gallerys collection illustrating the state of recent and contemporary Aboriginal art; organised by region; Arnhem Land, Groote Eylandt, Port Keats, Bathurst and Melville Islands, Western Desert and Kimberley.

Songlines and Dreamings

Author: Patrick Corbally Stourton
Publisher: Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
The art of the Australian Aborigines is widely recognised as being the oldest art form in the world, preceding that of the Americas and Europe by many centuries. For thousands of years, however, the only art forms practised by the Aborigines were rock painting and carving, bark painting, sand painting and body painting using natural ochres, wild desert cotton, charcoal and birds' down, often carried out as part of ceremonial activities. It was not until 1971 that the Aborigines of the Papunya Tula settlement in the deserts of the Northern Territory were introduced to methods of painting on canvas and board using modern materials. This book commemorates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Papunya Tula painting movement - the birthplace of contemporary Aboriginal painting. The work of eighty Papunya Tula artists, including some of the best known Aboriginal painters - Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Michael Nelson Tjakamarra and Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri - is illustrated in this book in two hundred full-colour reproductions which demonstrates the vibrancy and sophistication of the art. Patrick Corbally Stourton's introductory text examines the events which led to the birth of this extraordinary painting movement, and illuminates the mythology of Dreamings which lies behind every Aboriginal painting.