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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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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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Australia Modern : architecture, landscape & design
From the Sydney Opera House and the National Gallery of Victoria to sought-after homes across the country, the pervasive presence of modernism is inescapable in Australia. Led by the likes of Robin Boyd, Harry Seidler and Walter Burley Griffin, modernist architects and designers set out to rebuild at all scales, from vast infrastructure projects, to public health and education institutions, to new centres of culture, consumption and leisure. Australia Modern vividly captures this architectural legacy with a survey of 100 significant modern sites, richly illustrated with archival images and newly commissioned photographs. Contextual essays by leading voices in architecture and conservation explore modernism's influence on every facet of life in Australia and the ongoing challenges facing preservation. Showcasing projects from the iconic and the urban to the everyday, the regional and the lesser known, Australia Modern cultivates an appreciation for the modern architects and buildings that will increasingly constitute the heritage of tomorrow.
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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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New Guinea Highlands : Art from the Jolika Collection
\"This is the first major museum publication dedicated to New Guinea Highlands art, celebrating its dynamism, innovative forms, and extraordinary use of materials and recognizing generations of Highlands artists. The Jolika Collection represents decades of focused connoisseurship. The Friedes, members of the Fine Arts Museums staff, scholars of Highlands visual culture, and anthropologists from around the globe have contributed their expertise to this book, researching and recording the collection's works so that they can be shared with the public\"-- Provided by publisher.
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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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Paris : impressions in ink
This book displays more than fifty pen and ink drawings - my impressions of Paris. These impressions have been gathered and documented since my first memorable visit to Paris in the early 1970s. --page 7.
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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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