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Water in a dry land : place-learning through art and story
Water in a Dry Land is a story of research about water as a source of personal and cultural meaning. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. In the current geological era of human induced climate change, the desperate plight of the system of waterways has become an international phenomenon, a symbol of the unsustainable ways we relate to water globally. The Murray-Darling Basin extends west of the Great Dividing Range that separates the densely populated east coast of Australia from the sparsely populated inland. Aboriginal peoples continue to inhabit the waterways of the great artesian basin and pass on their cultural stories and practices of water, albeit in changing forms. A key question informing the book is: What can we learn about water from the oldest continuing culture inhabiting the world's driest continent? In the process of responding to this question a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers formed to work together in a contact zone of cultural difference within an emergent arts-based ethnography. Photo essays of the artworks and their landscapes offer a visual accompaniment to the text on the Routledge Innovative Ethnography This book is perfect for courses in environmental sociology, environmental anthropology, and qualitative methods.
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Ngirramanujuwal
Ngirramanujuwal is one who adds colour.Walmajarri man Jimmy Pike (c.19402002) manifests colour as strokes of ink on paper: the saturated hues of the desert sky at dusk, and the glimmers of the sun on the water's surface.
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Out of Australia : prints and drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas
Summary: This book follows the rise of a distinctive school of Australian art that first emerged in the 1940s. Beginning with the artists of the Angry Penguins movement, Arthur Boyd, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and Sidney Nolan, whose work exhibited a new strain of surrealism and expressionism, the book continues with the rich variety of 1970s work by Jan Seberg, Robert Jacks and George Baldessin, moving through to contemporary artists such as Rover Thomas and Judy Watson. Stephen Coppel traces the major developments in Australian art from the 1940s to the present day, and examines the significant interplay with the British art scene and the recent rise of Aboriginal printmaking.
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Once Upon a Time in Papunya
Astronomical auction prices in the late 1990s first drew many people's attention to the phenomenon of the early Papunya boards, the thousand small painted panels created at the remote Northern Territory Aboriginal settlement of Papunya in 1971-72.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art
Urban Indigenous artists face a number of stereotypes and public
expectations when producing artworks. This book shows that these expectations,
creating a range of tensions for artists, stem from the past policies of the
Queensland government. In particular, this book demonstrates that the actions of the
government body established in the 1950s to create a market for Aboriginal art,
Queensland Aboriginal Creations (QAC), has left a mixed legacy for Queensland
Indigenous artists. Their art styles have been misinterpreted as derivative copies
of ‘true’ Indigenous works and any positive outcomes that have come
from QAC’s engagement with communities and artist has been overlooked. This
book unveils new histories and new understandings about Indigenous art in
Queensland.
Stolte uses rich ethnographic detail to illuminate how both Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander artists begin to understand and express their heritage through
artwork at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art studio in the Tropical
North Queensland College of Technical and Further Education (TNQT TAFE), Cairns.
This is the first book to truly explore the effects of government policy on
indigenous arts. Gretchen Stolte's ethnography further develops methodologies in art
history and anthropology by identifying additional methods for understanding how art
is produced and meaning is created.
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Rattling spears : a history of indigenous Australian art
Large, bold, and colorful, indigenous Australian art-sometimes known as Aboriginal art-has made an indelible impression on the contemporary art scene. But it is controversial, dividing the artists, purveyors, and collectors from those who smell a scam. Whether the artists are victims or victors, there is no denying the impact of their work in the media, on art collectors and the art world at large, and on our global imagination. How did Australian art become the most successful indigenous form in the world? How did its artists escape the ethnographic and souvenir markets to become players in an art market to which they had historically been denied access? Beautifully illustrated, this full stunning account not only offers a comprehensive introduction to this rich artistic tradition, but also makes us question everything we have been taught about contemporary art.
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Desert Lake
Desert Lake is a book combining artistic, scientific and Indigenous views of a striking region of north-western Australia. Paruku is the place that white people call Lake Gregory. It is Walmajarri land, and its people live on their Country in the communities of Mulan and Billiluna. This is a story of water. When Sturt Creek flows from the north, it creates a massive inland Lake among the sandy deserts. Not only is Paruku of national significance for waterbirds, but it has also helped uncover the past climatic and human history of Australia. Paruku's cultural and environmental values inspire Indigenous and other artists, they define the place as an enduring home, and have led to its declaration as an Indigenous Protected Area. The Walmajarri people of Paruku understand themselves in relation to Country, a coherent whole linking the environment, the people and the Law that governs their lives. These understandings are encompassed by the Waljirri or Dreaming and expressed through the songs, imagery and narratives of enduring traditions. Desert Lake is embedded in this broader vision of Country and provides a rich visual and cross-cultural portrait of an extraordinary part of Australia.
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Dealer is the Devil
Adrian Newstead's explosive memoir lifts the lid on what Robert Hughes once described as \"the last great art movement of the 20th century.\" After thirty years sitting round campfires with Aboriginal artists all over Australia, Newstead has produced the definitive expose of \"the first great art movement of the 21st century\". From remote indigenous communities with their dispossessed populations of tribal elders and troubled youth, to the gleaming white box galleries, high powered auction houses, and formidable art institutions of major cities all over the world. Newstead combines personal anecdotes with an insider's grasp of the inter national art market. With vivid portraits of artists, dealers and scamsters, the book races from pre-contact and colonial days to the heady celebrations of the Sydney Olympics and the devastating impact of the global financial crisis. Newstead's humour, love and respect for his subjects produces a story that reads at times like a thriller and also a lament for a lost world. WBN reviewers gave five stars to The Dealer is the Devil, Adrian Newstead's 'personal and encyclopaedic' examination of the Indigenous art industry.
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