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Detail of wrapper of ABORIGINAL ARTEFACTS (mccourt1p 150/195 MCCO01)
McCourt, Tom. ABORIGINAL ARTEFACTS. Record of Aboriginal culture - art and artefacts. BNo. 0-85179-867-5 First Edition, 1975. Pp: x, 154; 250mm x 190mm; 0.79kg. 115 col, 6 b/w, 21 fig, 11 maps. Foreword, introduction, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Rigby Limited, Adelaide, 1975. (The author assembled the collection over many years and the artefacts come from places as far apart as the Northern Territory and south-eastern South Australia. A series of drawings and numerous colour and black and white photographs give full coverage of the artefacts described in the text) (Keywords: Material culture, traditional art, Australia, Aboriginal, Wandjina, Tjuringa, Warrenbo tribe, Allulla Corroboree, Charlie Numbulbor at Gibb River).
Book Code: M729 SOLD - now out of stock AU$55
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Detail of front cover - THE NEW McCULLOCH'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AUSTRALIAN ART (mcculloch02p 160/220 MCCU02)
McCulloch, Alan; Susan McCulloch & Emily McCulloch Childs. THE NEW McCULLOCH'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AUSTRALIAN ART. Aboriginal Art and Artists - Australian Art and Artists. BNo.0-522-85317-X. Fourth Edition, 2006. Pp: xvi, 1200; 260mm x 185mm; 3.62kg. num col, some b/w. Acknowledgments, about this book, Aboriginal art and artists, Australian art and artists, exhibitions, public art galleries and art museums, about the authors. A very good copy with illustrated boards in sleeve box. Cvr: vg; sb: vg. The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2006. (Now completely revised and updated The New McCulloch's includes: Over 8,000 entries on Australian artists, art movements, groups, prizes, awards, exhibitions and galleries; An extensive section on Australia's Aboriginal art with detailed information on artists, community art centres and regions; More than 1,500 new entries on contemporary artists and art styles. Lavishly illustrated, this book documents and analyses Australian and Aboriginal art from the famous to the obscure, the colonial to the contemporary) (Keywords: Encyclopedia, art, history, contemporary, modern, movement, style, Australia, Aboriginal art, artists, family, art centres).
Book Code: U334 AU$270
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Detail of wrap - NEW TRACKS - OLD LAND (mcguigan01p 165/231 MCGU01)
McGuigan, Chris (editor). NEW TRACKS - OLD LAND. Contemporary Prints from Aboriginal Australia. BNo.0-646-12324-6. First Edition, 1992 (pb). Pp: 75; 295mm x 205mm; 0.35kg. 11 col, 48 b/w. Acknowledgments, introduction, the artists, list, bibliography. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg (as new). Aboriginal Arts Management Association, Surry Hills, NSW, 1992. (To promote opportunities and encourage a better awareness and understanding between Aboriginal artists and the world, this catalogue presents eighty-six works of artists which include: David Malangi, Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, Doris Gingingara, Jimmy Pike, and many others) (Keywords: Aboriginal art, Australia, Yirrkala, Arnhem Land, central, painting, printmaking).
Book Code: T406 SOLD - now out of stock AU$35
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Mountford, Charles P. AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL SKIN RUGS. (extr.). Extract from Records of the South Australian Museum Vol.14 No.3 1963. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1963 (pb). Pp: 525-543; 245mm x 180mm; 0.05kg. 10 b/w(pl), 4 fig, 1map. Introduction, summary, acknowledgments, bibliography. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. South Australian Museum, W.L. Hawes, Adelaide, 1963. (This paper illustrates and describes Aboriginal skin rugs and decorated skins. The types, manufacturing techniques, methods of wearing, and decorations inscribed on the surface are also discussed) (Keywords: Ethnology, Australia, Aboriginal, Jarramungup, Parnkalla, Tatiara, Condah, Yandah).
Book Code: L133 SOLD - now out of stock AU$25
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Mountford, Charles P. AYERS ROCK. Its People, Their Beliefs and Their Art. BNo. 65-16798. First Edition, 1965. Pp: xiv, 208; 230mm x 150mm; 0.73kg. 5 col, 106 b/w, 42 fig, 1 map. Acknowledgments, introduction, summary, bibliography, index. A good hardback copy. Cvr: g. (minor marking on cvr; lacks dw). Angus and Robertson Ltd, Sydney, 1965. (This book is a study of the huge monolith that rises over 360 metres in the western desert of central Australia, and of the daily life, beliefs and art forms of its aboriginal inhabitants, the Pitjantjatjara tribe) (Keywords: Anthropology, Aboriginal, Australia, art, Ptjantjatjara, cave paintings, sacred objects, kulpidji, kurunba).
Book Code: D529 AU$95
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Mulvaney, D.J. GALLERY OF ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA. Report of the Planning Committee. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1975 (pb). Pp: (viii); 250mm x 180mm; 0.15kg. 1 col, 25 b/w. Summary of recommendations. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. Australian Government publishing Service, Canberra, 1975. (The recommendations of the planning committee on the establishment of the Gallery of Aboriginal Australia) (Keywords: Cultural history, ethnology, Australia, Aboriginal).
Book Code: N022 SOLD - now out of stock AU$25
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Detail of front cover of THE MEMORIAL (mundine1p 150/211 MUND01)
Mundine, Djon & Wally Caruana et al. LE MEMORIAL - THE MEMORIAL. Un chef-d'oeuvre d'art aborigene - A masterpiece of Aboriginal art. BNo. 92-9160-038-5. First Paperback Edition, 1999. Pp: 144; 295mm x 240mm; 1.02kg. 190 col, 3 b/w, 4 fig, 4 maps. Preface, introductions, bibliography. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Musee Olympique, Lausanne, 1999. (All text is in French and English. There is a personal account of the making of the Aboriginal Memorial by Djon Mundine, explaining its development and symbolism. The path through the Memorial imitates the course of the Glyde River estuary and the position of the hollow log coffins are situated broadly according to where the artists' clans living along the river and its tributaries) (Keywords: Indigenous art, anthropology, Australia, Aboriginal, Arnhem Land).
Book Code: M295 AU$75
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Detail of wrap - SALTWATER - Yirrkala Bark Paintings (mundine03p 170/228 MUND03)
Mundine, Djon. SALTWATER. Yirrkala Bark Paintings of Sea Country. BNo. 0-646-37702-7. First Edition, 1999 (pb). Pp: 112; 290mm x 205mm; 0.63kg. 146 col, 2 b/w, 1 map. Acknowledgments, preface, index of artists and paintings. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Jennifer Isaacs Publishing Pty Ltd and Buku-Larrngay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala, 1999. (The eighty bark paintings presented in this book are the work of forty-seven Yolnu artists from north-east Arnhem Land. They represent fifteen clans and eighteen homelands. This catalogue also contains an essay by Djon Mundine entitled 'Saltwater') (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia, Dhuwa, Yirritja, Datiwuy, Dhalwanu, Gurka'wuy, Djarrakpi).
Book Code: N240 AU$36
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Detail of wrap - THEY ARE MEDITATING (mundine07p 175/238 MUND07)
Mundine, Djon; Raymattja Marika, Wandjuk Marika, Jennifer Isaacs, John von Sturmer, Lindy Allen, Luke Taylor & Kim Barber. THEY ARE MEDITATING - Bark Paintings from the MCA's Arnott's Collection. Curators: Djon Mundine and Keith Munro. BNo.978-1-921034-23-7. First Edition, 2008 (pb). Pp: vi, 272; 290mm x 240mm; 1.78kg. 300 col, 48 b/w, 6 maps. Foreword, preface, index of works, acknowledgments. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2008. (This publication was produced for the exhibition of bark paintings which was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art between 14 February and 3 August 2008. The exhibition and catalogue draws attention to the significance of the art of painting, to a process where attention is focused on translating a particular story or ceremony onto prepared bark using ochres, and communicating through a range of symbolic figures and marks) (Keywords: Traditional and contemporary art, bark painting, northern Australia, Aboriginal, Groote Eylandt, Arnhem Land, Wadeye (Port Keats), Tiwi Islands).
Book Code: V331 AU$59
Note: Contributors and essays are:
(p.7) Marika, Raymattja - Totems and Clan Design; (p.9) Marika, Wandjuk & Jennifer Isaacs - Most Important is the Line - Wandjuk Marika Speaks of Painting; (p.15) Mundine, Djon - An Aboriginal Soliloquy; (p.35) Sturmer, John von - A Limping World - Works in the Arnott's Collection - Some Conceptual (p.57) Allen, Lindy - The Aesthetic and Magical Groote Eylandt Bark Paintings; (p.77) Mundine, Djon - The Spirit within North-Eastern and Central Arnhem Land; (p.147) Taylor, Luke - From Rock to Bark Art from Western Arnhem Land; (p.217) Barber, Kim - A History of Art in the Wadeye Region - Christopher Pugar and the Hidden Years;
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Detail of wrapper of WALBIRI ICONOGRAPHY - Graphic Representation and Cultural Symbolism in a Central Australian Society (munn01p 150/223 MUNN01)
Munn, Nancy D. WALBIRI ICONOGRAPHY. Graphic Representation and Cultural Symbolism in a Central Australian Society. BNo. 0801407397 First Edition, 1973 Pp: xxiv, 236; 205mm x 135mm; 0.58kg. 15 b/w, 19 fig, 1 map. Foreword, preface, glossary, bibliography, index. A very good copy with cloth boards in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. (old tape marks on eps; minor tear on dw). Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1973. (This highly innovative structural analysis explains how simple graphic forms are used by a tribe of Australian aborigines to create a potentially unlimited set of specific totemic designs, each with its own unique meaning) (Keywords: Anthropology, iconographic system, Australia, Aboriginal, Walbiri).
Book Code: W234 AU$130
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Detail of wrap of PAINTING CULTURE - The making of an Aboriginal high art (myers03p 150/230 MYER03)
Myers, Fred R. PAINTING CULTURE. The Making of an Aboriginal High Art. BNo. 0-8223-2949-2. First Edition, 2002 (pb). Pp: xvii, 419; 230mm x 150mm; 0.68kg. 8 col(pl), num b/w & fig. Acknowledgments, prologue, appendix, notes, references, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2002. (This book tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic "dot" paintings of Central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art. Since the early 1970s, Fred R. Myers has studied - often as a participant-observer - the Pintupi, one of several Aboriginal groups who paint the famous acrylic works. Describing their paintings and the complicated cultural issues they raise. Myers looks at how the paintings represent Aboriginal people and their culture and how their heritage is translated into exchangeable values) (Keywords: Contemporary art, culture, heritage, Central Australia, Aboriginal, Pintupi, Western Desert, acrylic paintings).
Book Code: R074 AU$56
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