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Art Books
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Aboriginal art books cover a wide range of topics and
regions. Below and on the following pages is a careful
selection of the best books currently available. These
include surveys of contemporary Aboriginal art and culture, overviews
of art from different regions of Australia or by particular
artists and accounts of rock art and Australian prehistory.
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Phillip Batty, Lindy Allen and John Morton (eds) |
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The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer |
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$55.00 in Australia
$50.00 for Export. |
| BB51, 2005 |
| Softcover 240 pages 23 by 28 cm |
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The Baldwin Spencer photographic archive is one of the earliest and most significant ethnographic records of Aboriginal life in Australia. It shows with compassion and beauty the day-to-day lives of Aboriginal people and their cultural traditions. This expanded, new edition of The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer includes panoramic images of the Top End that have never before been published, as well as essays by prominent authors including John Mulvaney, Howard Morphy, Nicolas Peterson and Philip Jones. The photographs are beautifully reproduced in this outstanding book.
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$9.9 |
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$35 |
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$45 |
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Sally Butler |
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Our Way: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Lockhart River |
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$79.20 in Australia
$72.00 for Export. |
| BB52, 2007 |
| Hardcover 160 pages, University of Queensland Press |
| 22.5 x 26.5 cm |
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This book surveys the art of a group of gifted young Aboriginal artists from far north Queensland's Lockhart River community. The artists include Rosella Namok, Samantha Hobson, Fiona Omeenyo and Silas Hobson. The "art gang", as they are known, have produced some of the most innovative contemporary Australian art in recent times. |
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$9.9 |
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$30 |
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$38 |
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Howard Morphy, Phaidon |
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Aboriginal Art |
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$44.00 in Australia
$40.00 for Export. |
| BB06, 1999 |
| Paperback 448 pages |
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Morphy's book is the best overall description and review of Aboriginal art and culture. Unlike many other books, it is not organised by regions but rather by themes such as country, society, ritual, history and the struggle for survival. This offers a considerable richness of insight and understanding. |
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$11 |
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$30 |
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$35 |
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Christian Kaufmann |
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Rarrk |
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$88.00 in Australia
$80.00 for Export. |
| BB57, 2005 |
| Softcover with jacket, 240 pages |
| 23 x 28 cm |
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John Mawurndjul is one of Australia's leading Aboriginal artists. This is a comprehensive monograph which explores the many facets and avenues not only of John Mawurndjul's works, but following up on daily, practical and theoretical issues influencing Australian indigenous art. John Mawurndjul is an innovator who has developed Kunwinjku bark painting from an iconic art form into a non-figurative style with a compelling geometry, building on the work of older leading Kunwinjku artists Yirawala, Marralwanga and Njiminjuma. Mawurndjul has, over the years, forged a new way of painting composed entirely of masses of rarrk (cross-hatching), unrelieved by figurative motifs. The book is illustrated with 140 full colour photographs and also maps. The text consists of a series of essays on interlinked themes by distinguished experts. |
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$11 |
| North America |
$36 |
| Europe |
$45 |
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Christine Nicholls |
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Art History Place |
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$13.20 in Australia
$12.00 for Export. |
| BB49, 2003 |
| Paperback 40 pages 24 x 25 cm |
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This book gives a clear history and explanation of Central and Western Desert art and how it reflects the belief system and Law of Aboriginal people. Its iconographic style is discussed and an introduction to interpreting 'traditional' Indigenous art is provided. Colour images of visual art works by artists using symbolic and figurative elements are included. Explanations of why traditional Indigenous art from other parts of Australia differ in design and techniques, and how recent history and other factors have influenced contemporary Indigenous art are given. |
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$4.4 |
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$8 |
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$10 |
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Linda Michael editor |
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Paddy Bedford |
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$49.50 in Australia
$45.00 for Export. |
| BB65, 2007 |
| Soft cover, 184 pages publisher Museum of Contemporary Art |
| 25 x 29 cm |
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Paddy Bedford was a Gija elder from Warmun in the north east Kimberley. As a senior law man he had been involved in painting as part of ceremony all his life. He began painting on canva, after Freddie Timms set up the Jirrawun Aboriginal Art group in 1997 and is represented in several major collections including the Art Gallery of NSW and the National Gallery of Australia. This book gives a retrospective of the artist's life and practice, as well as a history of the Gija people and their language through essays and traditional stories that complement the images of Bedford's work |
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$11 |
| North America |
$38 |
| Europe |
$48 |
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Seear, L, Allen L, Mundine D, Quaill A et al. |
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Story Place - Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest |
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$60.50 in Australia
$55.00 for Export. |
| BB35, 2003 |
| Soft cover, 240 pages, Queensland Art Gallery |
| 22 x 28 cm |
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This book accompanied the first major survey exhibition of historical and contemporary art work from Cape York Peninsula. It surveys the art and culture of Cape York through a series of essays, interviews, and artist and community profiles. Richly illustrated, it features the art work, the people and the environments of Cape York. |
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| Australia |
$11 |
| North America |
$45 |
| Europe |
$50 |
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Anangaku Arts |
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Tjukurpa Pulkatjara: The Power of the Law |
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$39.60 in Australia
$36.00 for Export. |
| BB71, 2010 |
| Soft cover, 180 pages, Wakefield Press |
| 21 x 28 cm |
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This book celebrates the works of 48 senior artists from the tri-state region in the far north west of South Australia and the work of their Aboriginal-owned community art centres. The artists are at the heart of the contemporary Indigenous art movement and include: Jimmy Baker, Maringka Baker, Wingu Tingima, Tommy Mitchell, Harry Tjutjuna and Dicky Minyintri among others.
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| Australia |
$11 |
| North America |
$22 |
| Europe |
$28 |
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