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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.
Prices are in Australian dollars and do not include
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is included in the Australian price) or customs duty.
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Susan McCulloch and Emily McCulloch Childs |
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Contemporary Aboriginal Art - The Complete Guide |
| Price: |
$49.50 in Australia
$45.00 for Export. |
| BB69, 2008 |
| Soft cover, 308 pages, McCulloch & McCulloch Art Books |
| 19 x 27 cm |
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This book is the complete guide to Aboriginal art of Australia featuring: extensive profiles on more then 80 art regions, art centres and artists; more than 400 illustrations of artwork, landscape and artists in their country; a comprehensive introduction detailing the history of contemporary Aboriginal art; location maps; buyer's guide; and an exploration of the new media and styles of city-based artists. For more details see our information page. |
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| Delivery Costs for this item |
| Australia |
$11 |
| North America |
$35 |
| Europe |
$42 |
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Hetti Perkins and Margie West (editors) |
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One Sun One Moon: Aboriginal Art in Australia |
| Price: |
$121.00 in Australia
$110.00 for Export. |
| BB60, 2007 |
| Hard cover, 368 pages, publisher Art Gallery of NSW |
| 26 x 31 cm |
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This book aims to become the standard work on Australian Aboriginal art. It features a very diverse range of art beautifully illustrated with 240 plates of work by leading artists. The 27 essays by leading authorities and 13 interviews with key artists are accompanied by an extensive chronology. The book brings together works from three major Australian collections: the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, the Holmes à Court Collection, Heytesbury, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. |
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| Delivery Costs for this item |
| Australia |
$18.7 |
| North America |
$70 |
| Europe |
$85 |
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Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon , Miegunyah Press |
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Papunya - A Place Made After the Story |
| Price: |
$66.00 in Australia
$60.00 for Export. |
| BB47, 2004 |
| Soft cover 552 pages, Melbourne University Press |
| 25 x 31 cm |
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This beautiful and remarkable book is a first-hand account of the artists and the works from Papunya. Bardon's meticulously recorded notes and drawings are reproduced showing his extensive documentation of the early stages of the Western Desert painting movement. It 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 lost. This material is an essential reference source. The book weighs nearly 3 kg, so the postage cost is unfortunately high. |
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| Delivery Costs for this item |
| Australia |
$13.2 |
| North America |
$80 |
| Europe |
$90 |
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Nicholas Evans, Paul Memmott and Louise Martin-Chew |
| Title: |
The Heart Of Everything |
| Price: |
$39.60 in Australia
$36.00 for Export. |
| BB66, 2008 |
| Soft cover, 100 pages, McCulloch & McCulloch Art Books |
| 22 x 28 cm |
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Featuring the work of artists from Mornington Island Arts and Craft, this book explores the history and visual culture of the region and its wide-ranging contemporary art. This volume also includes a collection of paintings by the Kaiadilt artists of nearby Bentinck Island of whom Sally Gabori is the best known. Lavishly-illustrated throughout, the book features informative essays and biographies of the leading artists. |
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| Australia |
$11 |
| North America |
$28 |
| Europe |
$35 |
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Vivien Johnson |
| Title: |
Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists |
| Price: |
$99.00 in Australia
$90.00 for Export. |
| BB68, 2008 |
| Hard cover, 416 pages, publisher IAD Press |
| 25 x 30 cm |
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This book chronicles the beginnings of the Western Desert Aboriginal art movement and the development of its founding art company over the last 40 years. It contains comprehensive biographies of more than 200 men and women artists and is illustrated with 400 colour and 40 black and white photographs of artists and key artworks. For more details see our information page. |
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| Delivery Costs for this item |
| Australia |
$11 |
| North America |
$65 |
| Europe |
$85 |
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W E H Stanner |
| Title: |
The Dreaming and Other Essays |
| Price: |
$33.00 in Australia
$30.00 for Export. |
| BB70, 2009 |
| Soft cover, 292 pages, Black Inc Agenda |
| 15 x 24 cm |
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In essays such as ‘The Dreaming’ , the anthropologist W E H Stanner conveyed the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture. In his Boyer Lectures he exposed a ‘cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale,’ regarding the fate of Aborigines, for which he coined the phrase ‘the great Australian silence’. And in his essay ‘Durmugam’ he provided an unforgettable portrait of a warrior’s attempt to hold back cultural change. ‘He was such a man,’ Stanner wrote. ‘I thought I would like to make the reading world see and feel him as I did.’ The book contains a useful introduction by Robert Manne which places Stanner's work in context.
The pieces collected here span the career of W.E.H. Stanner as well as the history of Australian race relations. They reveal the extraordinary scholarship, humanity and vision of one of Australia’s finest essayists.
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| Australia |
$11 |
| North America |
$25 |
| Europe |
$30 |
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Vivien Johnson (editor) |
| Title: |
Papunya painting: Out of the desert |
| Price: |
$35.20 in Australia
$32.00 for Export. |
| BB59, 2007 |
| Softcover 146 pages 24 by 28 cm |
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The National Museum of Australia holds an outstanding collection of Papunya Tula art including many large canvases. Most of these paintings have never been seen in Australia in the three decades since they were painted. This book is the catalogue accompanying a landmark exhibition of the Museum's collection of Papunya paintings from the 1970s and early 1980s. It contains numerous illustrations of the major works as well as images of the artists at work and in their country. It contains essays by John Kean (an early Papunya coordinator), Phillip Batty, Vivien Johnson and Fred Myers. The paintings are organized chronologically. |
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| Delivery Costs for this item |
| Australia |
$11 |
| North America |
$30 |
| Europe |
$35 |
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Judith Ryan |
| Title: |
Kitty Kantilla |
| Price: |
$35.20 in Australia
$32.00 for Export. |
| BB61, 2007 |
| Paperback 107 pages published by National Gallery of Victoria |
| 24 x 29 cm |
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This book covers the work of Tiwi artist Kitty Kantilla (Kutuwulumi Purawarrumpatu) (c. 1928-2003). It is profusely illustrated in full colour and includes short essays by recognized authoriities about aspects of the artist's work. It was the catalogue for a retrospective exhibition held at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2007. |
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| Australia |
$11 |
| North America |
$30 |
| Europe |
$35 |
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