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.

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.

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.

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

Australian Aboriginal Art

Author: Peter Platt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648461708
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Australian Aboriginal Artist Troy Little has asked me to create 2 coloring books from 45 drawings featuring native Australian wildlife. Book 1 contains 20 drawings that have been used to create 70 designs on one-sided pages for all ages to color.The 70 designs have the original and 3 variations.-The original.-The original placed on dot art.-The animal enlarged for children to color and cut out.-The animal surrounded by dot art for children to color.The book is 8.5 x 11 inches with 148 pages.

Contemporary Aboriginal Art

Author: Susan McCulloch
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781865083056
Category : Aboriginal Austalian artists
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
A glorious illustrated guide to Australia's 20 major art producing communities, prefaced by a description of each region and a history of the development of Aboriginal art over the last 27 years.

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.

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.

Pacific Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art

Author: Karin Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
This guide book, designed to give you a glimpse of Pacific Northwest Coast aboriginal art, will give you deeper understanding and whet your appetite for learning more about today's vibrant, complex aboriginal cultures. Three sections show you where to look to identify many of the things you will see - from three-dimensional objects like bentwood boxes, ceremonial houses, masks and canoes, to crest designs, to the main design elements in Pacific Northwest Coast aborignal art.--back cover.