Seeing the Inside - Bark Painting in Western Arnhem Land

Zusatztext Taylor's detailed account of Western Arnhem Land art adds significantly to the work begun by Morphy and Munn concerning one of the most important art-producing regions of the world. ... detailed and well-written study ... interesting analysis of how art is tied to the social fabric of Kunwinjku life. Informationen zum Autor Luke Taylor is a Senior Curator at the National Museum of Australia. He has worked for the Australian Federal Government's Review of the Aboriginal Artsa and Crafts Industry, and held a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. In 1995/6 he was a visiting scholar at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. He has published articles on Australian Aboriginal art and society, and he is co-editorof Marketing Aboriginal Art in the 1990s (Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1990). Zusammenfassung Seeing the Inside is the first detailed study of one of the world's great visual art traditions, the bark painting of Aboriginal artists in western Arnhem Land, Australia. Luke Taylor explains how their unique tradition has developed, and examines the cultural meaning of this art and its role in the society which produces it.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Taylor, Luke Taylor, Luke (Senior Curator Taylor, Taylor Luke
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 20.01.1997
• EAN: 9780198233541
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823354-1
• Pages: 300
• Thèmes: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology - Cultural Forms; Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology - Cultural Forms
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Arts plastiques; Cultural Studies, Australia, ART / History / General, Art of indigenous peoples, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), ART / Australian & Oceanian, Indigenous Peoples, History of Art, Relating to indigenous peoples, Painting & paintings, Paintings and painting, Indigenous styles, Relating to First Nations peoples in Australia