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Recent Book Release - October 2004

PAPUNYA - A Place Made After the Story.

Papunya presents for the first time a complete record of the artists and the works emanating from the Papunya outpost in central Australia. Bardon's recorded notes and drawings are here reproduced showing his extensive documentation of the early stages of the painting movement.

This book features over 500 paintings, drawings and photographs from Bardon's personal archive. Many of the images have never been seen before and many of the paintings are now been lost.

Bardon, Geoff with James Bardon. PAPUNYA - A Place Made After the Story. The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement. BNo. 0-522-85110-X. First Edition, 2004. Pp: xxiii, 528; 300mm x 245mm; 3.0kg. over 500 col, b/w & fig. Forewords, acknowledgments, explanatory notes, preface, introduction, glossary, bibliography, index of paintings, index of artists, general index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2004. (Keywords: Traditional, contemporary painting. Central Australia, Aboriginal, Papunya, Dreamings).

Book Code:

R522

AU$109

Recent Book Release - July 2004

CROSSING COUNTRY - The Alchemy of Western Arnhem Land Art.

This book was published to accompany the landmark exhibition, Crossing Country: The alchemy of Western Arnhem Land art, which reveals the strength and beauty of Western Arnhem Land. It is also the extraordinary story of the artists and their unique atanding in Australia's cultural landscape.

Essays include: Crossing Country: The alchemy of Western Arnhem Land Art by Hetti Perkins; Barridjangonhmi Bimi Paint It For Me! By LoftyBardayal Nadjamerrek; Growing Up in a Painted Landscape by Murray Garde; Our Spirits Lie in the Water by Ivan Namirrkki; Fire in the Water: Inspiration from Country by Luke Taylor; That's My Story by Mary Marabamba; John Mawurndjul: The Artist at Work by Jenni Carter; I'm a Chemist Man, Myself by John Mawurndjul; Anchor Kulunba: The Artist at Work by Jon Altman; Kuninjku Women and the Power of Making Art by Apolline Kohen; and others.

Perkins, Hetti (curatorial editor & essays). CROSSING COUNTRY: The Alchemy of Western Arnhem Land Art. BNo.0-7347-6359-X. First Edition, 2004 (pb). Pp: 240; 300mm x 245mm; 1.60kg. num col, some b/w, 1 map. Author's notes, lenders, acknowledgments, foreword, artist biographies, list of works, select chronology, glossary, contributos, select bibliography, index. A very good paperback copy in illustrated wrap. Wrp: vg. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004. (Keywords: Contemporary, traditional art, Northern Australia, Aboriginal, Western Arnhem Land, bark paintings, sculptures).

Book Code:

R502

AU$68

Recent Book Release - December 2003

ABORIGINAL ARTISTS - Dictionary of Biographies.

The Aboriginal Artists Dictionary is a meticulously researched biographical dictionary containing more than 1000 entries about artists from the central and western deserts and from the Kimberley region. It is set to become the definitive reference work on Aboriginal artists of these regions and an essential reference for all collectors and people with an interest in Aboriginal art.

The book includes a brief biography and relevant exhibition entries for artists who painted from the beginning of the 1970s to late 2003. It is lavishly illustrated with portraits of the artists and examples of their work, complemented by photographs of country and desert landscapes

Kreczmanski, Janusz & Margo Birnberg. ABORIGINAL ARTISTS - Dictionary of Biographies. Central Desert, Western Desert and Kimberley Region. BNo.1-876622-47-4. First Edition, 2004. Pp: 446; 250mm x 170mm; 1.50kg. num col, 1 map. Foreword, general introduction, acknowledgments, index of artists, bibliography. A very good hardback copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; wrp: vg. J.B. Publishing, Adelaide, 2004.

Book Code:

R314

AU$75

KOREWORI - Magic Art from the Rain Forest.

The area of the Korewori River in Papua New Guinea is the source of fascinating sculptures: images of carved creator beings and demons that were of great ritual importance as helpful hunting spirits.

The works created by wood-carvers more than 200 years ago testify to the exceptional creative powers of a group of people who lived hidden away in the rain forest.

Kaufmann, Christian. KOREWORI - Magic Art from the Rain Forest. BNo. 1-86333-249-9. First Edition, 2003. Pp: 103; 295mm x 220mm; 0.92kg. num col, 3 b/w. Foreword, list of objects, bibliography and sources. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Crawford House Publishing Australia Pty Ltd, Adelaide, 2003. (The Museum der Kulturen Basel collection of Korewori sculptures are illustrated in this book. This publication explores the artistic character of these works which orginally served to enhance the success of hunting and performed further functions as an intermediary between man and his environment) (Keywords: Ethnology, anthropology, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Korewori).

Book Code:

R161

AU$88

STORY PLACE - Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest.

This book accompanies the first major survey exhibition of historical and contemporary art work from Cape York Peninsula's three diverse cultural regions - west Cape, east Cape and the rainforest.

The more than 60 indigenous artists featured include Arthur Pambegan Jr, Thancoupie, Craig Koomeeta, Joe Rootsey, Michael Boiyool Anning, members of the Lockart River Art Gang, Vernon Ah Kee, Danie Mellor, and fibre artists Wilma Walker, Desley Henry and Dorothy Short.

Seear, Lynne; Lindy Allen; Djon Mundine; Avril Quaill; et al. STORY PLACE. Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest. BNo. 1-876509-67-8. First Edition, 2003 (pb). Pp: 240; 280mm x 220mm; 1.22kg. over 200 col, some b/w, 1 map. Preface, introduction, endnotes, selected bibliography, contributors, acknowledgments. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 2003. (In this book the art and the culture of Cape York in Northern Australia is seen through a series of essays, interviews and artist and community profiles. Over three hundred art works and cultural objects including shields, fibre works, sculptures, ceramics, paintings and works on paper have been sourced from private and public collections throughout Australia) (Keywords: Contemporary art, Australia, Aboriginal, Cape York).

Book Code:

R056

AU$50

Detail of front cover of PIERCING THE GROUND

PIERCING THE GROUND - Balgo women's image making and relationship to country.

With this book, Christine Watson makes an important contribution to the work of anthropologists such as Phyllis Kaberry, Nancy Munn, Catherine Berndt and Diane Bell on the extent and significance of Aboriginal women's ceremony and relationship to the land in the region. Liberally illustrated, it is a valuable text for those readers interested in the spiritual and concrete relationship to the land that is embodied in Aboriginal art.

Balgo is recognised as one of the most dynamic centres of contemporary Aboriginal art, and its paintings offer a rich entry point into the traditions of desert Aboriginal knowledge of country.

Watson, Christine. PIERCING THE GROUND. Balgo women's image making and relationship to country. BNo. 1-920731-30-X. First Edition, 2003 (pb). Pp: 400; 230mm x 150mm; 0.68kg. 31 col, 21 b/w, 23 fig, 1 map. Acknowledgments, introduction, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2003. (The author's book stands as a highly original and groundbreaking elucidation of Kurjungka painting and a significant addition to what is known as 'the anthropology of art') (Keywords: Contemporary art, Australia, Aboriginal, Balgo women).

Book Code:

R035

AU$32

Recent Book Release - December 2003

ROVER THOMAS - I want to paint.

In 2000 the Holmes a Court Gallery presented a small survey of ten paintings by Rover Thomas in collaboration with Mary Macha. The objective was to invite the viewer to engage with the paintings, uncluttered by interpretation other than their own perceptions.

This exhibition is an extension of this original concept, and has been strengthened by the inclusion of major works from other Australian galleries.

Christensen, Will (essay) & Duncan Peppercorn (introduction). ROVER THOMAS. I want to paint. BNo. 0-9581792-1-2. First Edition, 2003 (pb). Pp: 84; 245mm x 300mm; 0.68kg. 20 col, 21 b/w, 2 maps. Foreword, introduction, list, selected exhibitions and references, acknowledgments. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Heytesbury Pty Ltd, 2003, East Perth, 2003. (The exhibition is a tribute to one of Australia's greatest artists. His painting is distinctive, and the deceptively simple use of form and pigments are at once stark representations of the country he painted and stunning examples of contemporary art. The exhibition includes major works from Australia's prominent art galleries. It is the intention that these works speak for themselves as great paintings by an artist who simply loved to paint) (Keywords: Contemporary art, Australia, Aboriginal, Rover Thomas).

Book Code:

R030

AU$35

Recent Book Release - October 2002

Detail of front cover of CLIFFORD POSSUM TJAPALTJARRI

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was one of Australia's most distinguished painters of the late twentieth century. A pioneer of dot painting in the Western Desert of central Australia, he soon became a leader of this important movement of Indigenous art. (an extract from Director's foreword - Ron Radford).

This exhibition book accompanies the artist's first comprehensive retrospective and he is the only Papunya Tula artist to be honoured by such an exhibition at a major institution.

Johnson, Vivien. CLIFFORD POSSUM TJAPALTJARRI. A retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia. BNo. 0-7308-3053-5. First Edition, 2003. Pp: 256; 320mm x 245mm; 2.13kg. num col, b/w & fig, 2 maps. Director's foreword, introduction, end notes, exhibitions, selected bibliography. A very good hardback copy with illustrated cover. Cvr: vg. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2003. (This exhibition book accompanies the artist's first comprehensive retrospective. There are chapters on the artist's corroboree country, his start as a carver and his early days at Papunya) (Keywords: Traditional, contemporary art, Central Australia, Aboriginal artist, Anmatyerre, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri).

Book Code:

Q359

AU$75

Detail of front cover of THE ART OF KULA

THE ART OF KULA - Exchange in the Trobriand Islands.

Nearly a century ago, it was predicted that Kula, the exchange of shell valuables in the Massim region of Papua New Guinea, would disappear.

Not only has this prophecy failed to come true, but today Kula is expanding beyond these island communities to the mainland and Australia.

Campbell, Shirley F. THE ART OF KULA. Exchange in the Trobriand Islands - motivations and meanings. BNo. 1-85973-518-5. First Edition, 2002 (pb). Pp: 288; mm x mm; kg. 16 b/w, 54 fig, 6 tab. Bibliography, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Berg Publishers, Oxford, 2002. (This book unveils the many deep motivations and meanings that lie behind the pursuit of Kula. Focusing upon the visually stimulating carved and painted prow boards that decorate canoes used by the Kula voyagers, the author argues that these designs comprise layers of encoded meaning) (Keywords: Ethnography, Pacific, Melanesia, Trobriand Islands, Massim, Kula exchange).

Book Code:

Q160

AU$60

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A DISTANT PLACE - A DIFFERENT VOICE

Susan Turner has spent fourteen of the past twenty years living in Papua New Guinea, a country just past that threshold which separates rare traditional ways of life from the outer world. Living as she has among the indigenous people, her view is much more from the inside than from the outside. These black and white photographs reach far beyond a visitor's curiosity or a researcher's ethnography as Turner's subjects become gracious and natural collaborators.

Turner, Susan (photographer). A DISTANT PLACE - A DIFFERENT VOICE. Twenty Years in Papua New Guinea. BNo. 0-9722908-1-8. First Edition, 2003 (pb). Pp: 40; 240mm x 295mm; 0.35kg. 37 duotone. Introduction. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Futura Press, North Hollywood, California, 2003. (Keywords: Photography, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, indigenous people, traditional life).

Book Code:

Q150

AU$26

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Recent Book Release - 2002

Detail of front cover of NATIVE TITLE BUSINESS - Contemporary Indigenous Art

Each work of Native Title Business has been chosen to present a point of access, an understandable hook on which the general public may learn something about not only contemporary visual arts practices, but the vexing, ignored post-contact and legalistic history of Aboriginal Australia.

The artworks selected and commissioned in 2001 that make up the exhibition provide a snapshot of works relating to the broad theme, spanning the post-contact era, of how and why we have arrived at where we are today.

Winter Joan G. (curator). NATIVE TITLE BUSINESS. Contemporary Indigenous Art. A National Travelling Exhibition. BNo. 0-9585291-6-7. First Edition, 2002 (pb). Pp: 102; 280mm x 225mm; 0.48kg. num col. Foreword, introduction, list of works. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Keeaira Press, Southport, Queensland, 2002. (The main aim of the travelling exhibition, Native Title Business is to promote understanding and reconciliation on native title, land and water rights in Australia. This book was published to accompany that travelling exhibition and contains contemporary art works representing more than sixty artists from all states and the Northern Territory) (Keywords: Contemporary indigenous art, Australia, Aboriginal).

Book Code:

Q146

AU$26

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Recent Book Release - June 2003

Detail of front cover of KAMORO ART - Tradition and innovation in a New Guinea culture

Kamoro Art - Tradition and innovation in a New Guinea culture celebrates the long neglected art of the Kamoro, a people living along the south-west coast of Papua. Traditional Kamoro culture was characterised by an almost uninterrupted series of feasts and ceremonies.

The book, edited by Dirk Smidt, includes a substantial essay by Jan Pouwer on major ceremonial feasts, and contributions by other experts in the field, including Todd Harple, Karen Jacobs, Methodius Mamapuku, and Hein A. van der Schoot.

Smidt, Dirk (editor). KAMORO ART - Tradition and Innovation in a New Guinea Culture. With an essay Kamoro Life and Ritual by Jan Pouwer. BNo. 90-6832-268-0. First Edition, 2003. Pp: 158; 305mm x 235mm; 1.18kg. num col & b/w, 1 map. About the authors, preface, introduction, bibliography. A very good hardback copy with an illustrated cover. Cvr: vg. KIT Publishers, Amsterdam and Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, 2003. (A selection of major pieces from the collection of the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, augmented by rare objects from other museums in the Netherlands, has been brought together in the catalogue section of the book) (Keywords: Ethnology, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Papua, Kamoro, ceremonial feasts, culture).

Book Code:

Q098

AU$72

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Recent Book Release - June 2003

Detail of front cover of INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN ART in the National Gallery of Victoria

INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN ART

The NGV has developed an outstanding collection of over 2300 works across all media that is representative of most of the art-producing communities and is strongly contemporary in its emphasis.
The collection focuses on the period from 1970 to the present, representing bark painting, sculpture, fibre works, paintings on canvas, ceramics, photography, printmaking, video, installation art and textiles.

This book provides access to many works that have not been published before, revealing some of the unexpected riches in the NGV's Indigenous Art collection.

Ryan, Judith. INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN ART in the National Gallery of Victoria. BNo. 0-7241-0212-4. First Edition, 2002 (pb). Pp: 72; 285mm x 240mm; 0.54kg. 94 col, 2 maps. Director's foreword, introduction, catalogue. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002. (This publication is a catalogue of the indigenous Autralian art in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. This book reveals the breadth and diversity of the collection, illustrating works in a wide range of media by artists from many different cultural groups and regions) (Keywords: Traditional, contemporary art, Australia, Aboriginal, Torres Strait, Tiwi, Pintupi, Alawa, Kukatja, Wangkajunga, Aranda, Warlpiri, Kimberley, Central Desert).

Book Code:

Q090

AU$24

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Recent Book Release - May 2003

Detail of front of wrap of SOUTH WEST CENTRAL - Indigenous art from south Western Australia 1833-2002

South West Central introduces an audience to the multiplicity of Nyoongar visual culture, far broader than the well-known Carrolup tradition, important as that has been for its initiators and their heirs.

It also shows the work of imprisoned artists who created these visions, dreaming of freedom.

Croft, Brenda L. with Janda Gooding. SOUTH WEST CENTRAL. Indigenous art from south Western Australia 1833-2002. BNo. 0-9750168-0-6. First Edition, 2003 (pb). Pp: 83; 290mm x 230mm; 0.55kg. 50 col, 25 b/w, 1 map. Foreword, glossary, bibliography, acknowledgments. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 2003. (Embracing a period of nearly two centuries, this book includes a reproduction of an 1833 ink drawing by Gyallipurt, twenty-first-century digital re-takes on colonial representations and, a myriad of outstanding visual expressions by Nyoongar artists that reveal their relationships to their communities and traditional lands) (Keywords: Indigenous art, south Western Australia, Aboriginal, painting, contemporary, traditional, sculpture).

Book Code:

R077

AU$29

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Recent Book Release - April 2003

Detail of front of wrap of COLLECTED - 150 Years of Aboriginal Art and Artifacts at the Macleay Museum

Collected is the first book to be published on the Macleay Museum's important holdings of Australian Aboriginal art and artefacts. These include a significant collection of bark paintings, pearl shell ornaments and a unique Wandjina figure. Supplemented by about 30 historic photographs mainly from the Museum's extensive collections. Collected highlights the rich artistic tradition of Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal artefacts from the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales are featured, many being among the earliest collected from a particular area. The collecting history of these items is documented for the first time and an appendix provides biographical information on the main collectors.

Davies, Susan M. COLLECTED - 150 Years of Aboriginal Art and Artifacts at the Macleay Museum. BNo. 0-9581300-0-0. First Edition, 2002 (pb). Pp: 108; 295mm x 210mm; 0.57kg. 51 col, 27 b/w, 1 map. Foreword, introduction, endnotes, bibliography and references, glossary, acknowledgments. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, Sydney, 2002. (Collected is the first book to be published on the Macleay Museum's important holdings of Australian Aboriginal art and artefacts. The book features some of Australia's oldest bark paintings as well as shields, clubs, bags and body ornaments from the Macleay Museum's historic collections. These artefacts, most of them collected in the second half of the nineteenth century, are showcased along with others collected in the twentieth century) (Ethnology, Australia, Aboriginal, Northern Territory, Arnhem Land, Queensland, artefacts, bark paintings).

Book Code:

P336

AU$60

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