Australian Indigenous Artists
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# 47002
MOUNTFORD, Charles P.
The art of Albert Namatjira
Foreword by R.H. Croll. Melbourne : Bread and Cheese Club, 1949. Fifth edition. Quarto, papered boards with gilt lettering, in illustrated dustjacket (lightly rubbed, a couple of short tears and nicks), 79 pp, illustrated with b/w and colour plates, pale water stain to fore edge. A good copy.
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# 46991
WOLSELEY, John et al.
Midawarr | harvest : the art of Mulkun Wirrpanda and John Wolseley
Edited by Will Stubbs and John Wolseley. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Museum of Australia, 2018. Folio, illustrated wrappers, pp. 207, illustrated. Two artists, two completely different approaches, but one abiding passion — to celebrate the natural bounty to be found in the floodplains, swamps, savannas and woodlands of northern Australia. Mulkun Wirrpanda and John Wolseley, her …
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# 46989
HART, Deborah
Emily Kame Kngwarreye : paintings from 1989 – 1995. Works from the Delmore Collection
Canberra : Parliament House, 1995. Folio, illustrated wrappers, pp. [20], illustrated. Essay by Deborah Hart. Very scarce and early publication on Kngwarreye, preceding all the monographs on her.
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# 46986
MUNDINE, Djon
The native born : objects and representations from Ramingining, Arnhem Land (softcover)
Sydney : Museum of Contemporary Art in association with Bula’bula Arts, Ramingining, [2000]. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 242, extensively illustrated, a little edge wear, a good copy. Focuses upon the character and background of the Ramingining Collection, formed by Djon Mundine — who also provides the major essay for this book. ‘This exhibition of …
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# 46985
[BEDFORD, Paddy]
Paddy Bedford
Sydney : Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated. A very good copy.
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# 46984
RYAN, Judith et al.
Tiwi : art & artists
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2020. Quarto (300 mm x 255 mm), boards in dustjacket, pp. 336, illustrated. Tiwi visual and performative cultural practices have existed for many millennia, but it was only during the twentieth century that a wider public became aware of the magnificence of Tiwi painting and sculpture. This compelling publication …
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# 46981
STROCCHI, Marina
Ikuntji : paintings from Haasts Bluff 1992 – 1994
Alice Springs : IAD Press, 1995. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 110, illustrated. Paintings from an Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory.
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# 46980
NEALE, Margo
Urban Dingo. The art and life of Lin Onus 1948 – 1996
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery, 2000. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 144, numerous illustrations, light handling wear and sunning to spine. A very good copy of a scarce title.
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# 46979
CHAPMAN, Christopher et al.
Dreamings of the desert : Aboriginal dot paintings of the Western Desert
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 140, illustrated. Celebration of 25th anniversary of dot painting movement resulted in this publication and in an exhibition of the entire collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia’s western desert art; recognition of movement; map of central Australian languages; illustrated history of …
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# 46977
PICKERING, Michael et al.
Yiwarra kuju : the Canning Stock Route
Canberra : National Museum of Australia, 2010. Quarto, cards in dustjacket, pp. [xx]; 230, illustrated. The Aboriginal people of Australias Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track …
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# 46966
SAYERS, Andrew (1957 - 2015)
Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century
With a foreword by Lin Onus and a chapter by Carol Cooper. Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with National Gallery of Australia, 1994. Reprint, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 162, illustrated. A fine copy. ‘Andrew Sayers examines a considerable body of drawings produced by Aboriginal artists between 1803 and 1903. Never before collected …
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# 46965
HALL, Vic
Namatjira of the Aranda
Adelaide : Rigby, 1963. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket , pp. 56 plus numerous photographic plates. A fine copy.
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# 46838
NICOLAS, Alain (ed.)
Paysages rêvés : artistes aborigènes contemporains de Balgo Hills (Australie Occidentale)
Marseille : Musée d’Arts Africains, Océaniens, Amérindiens, Galeries Gaston Defferre, Centre de la Vieille Charité, 2004. Large quarto (300 x 230 mm), pictorial card covers with French flaps, pp. 128, colour illustrations, maps; a very fine copy. Scarce catalogue produced for an exhibition of works by artists from the remote Balgo Hills community in Western …
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# 46707
SAYERS, Andrew (1957 - 2015)
Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century (hardcover edition)
With a foreword by Lin Onus and a chapter by Carol Cooper. Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with National Gallery of Australia, 1994. First edition. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, slight sunning to spine, pp. 162, illustrated. A very good copy. ‘Andrew Sayers examines a considerable body of drawings produced by Aboriginal artists …
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# 46918
[NAMATJIRA]. HARDY, Jane, MEGAW, J.V.S., and MEGAW, M. Ruth
The Heritage of Namatjira. The Watercolourists of Central Australia.
Melbourne : Heinemann, 1992. Large octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xxii; 350, illustrated in colour, spine sunned, light handling wear, previous owner’s name to half-title. The primary reference work on the Hermannsburg school. A good copy of a title which is out of print and quite scarce.
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# 46896
PERKINS, Hetti et al.
One Sun One Moon : Aboriginal Art in Australia
Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2007. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 368, illustrated. This copy is still sealed in the publisher’s shrink-wrap, but it has a small amount of loss at the foot of the spine where perhaps it was dropped, and as such is sold as a reference copy. ‘Aboriginal art …