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Yulyurlu Lorna Fencer Napurrurla was an important pioneer of the Central Desert art movement. This profile of Yulyurlu illustrates her bold and expressive artwork, with its brilliant use of colour and ongoing graphic explorations of her Yam Dreaming complex from Tanami Desert.
Recounts the aborigine story of creation featuring Goorialla, the great Rainbow Serpent.
"Jack Dale Mengenen paints powerful imagesof the Kimberley landscape: his land claim paintings, Wandjinas, spirits of the clouds - all gathered together across his country. Jacks paintings are a history lesson of his experiences, the story of the Kimberley through musch of the twenieth century" -- Book cover.
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This unique book is the only fully interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of the Australian desert and its pivotal role in the cultural history of Australia. Beginning with the prehistory of the continent, it engages with geology, the Aboriginal Dreaming narratives of origin, the arrival of the first Australians, Aboriginal culture of the Dreaming, anthropology, colonial history and the cult of the inland explorer-hero, and integration of the central deserts through the responses of writers, artists, and filmmakers into the national identity. Chapters explore the unique way Indigenous artists have evolved a method of expressing their spiritual relationship to Country, while hiding from un...
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.