Australian Indigenous Artists
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# 46093
GREEN, Jenny
Pmere : country in mind. Arrernte landscape painters
[Alice Springs] : Tangentyere Council, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, illustrated. ‘Compiled for an exhibition of the same name in Freemantle 1988 – Includes comments by Jillian Namatjira – Gabriella Wallace – Clem Abbott – Wenten Rubuntja – Doug Abbott – Basil Rantji – Desmond Ebataringa – Therese Ryder – Kathleen Wallace’ – Trove
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# 46094
MUNDINE, John
The art of Ramingining
Surfers Paradise, Qld : The Centre Gallery, 1987. Quarto, exhibition catalogue, pp. [6], illustrated. Related ephemera enclosed. Includes works by George Milpurrurru, David Malangi et al.
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# 46104
SKERRITT, Henry F. et al.
Irrit̲itja kuwarri tjungu = Past & present together : fifty years of Papunya Tula artists
Edited by Fred Myers and Henry Skerritt ; with contributions by John Kean. Charlottesville, VA : University of Virginia Press, 2021. Quarto, illustrated boards (corner bumped), pp. xiii, 278, illustrated. ‘In 1971 a small group of Aboriginal artists from Australia’s remote Central and Western Deserts changed the face of global art history. The township of …
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# 46137
RUHE, Edward Lehman
Aborigine bark paintings : an exhibition of primitive art from Arnhem Land, Australia organised by Edward L. Ruhe. The Gallery, Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont. November 30 – December 21 1973.
Octavo (225 x 150 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 21, illustrated in b/w.; a good copy. Catalogue for an exhibition of 88 Arnhem Land barks from Yirrkala, Milingimbi, Western Arnhem Land, Groote Eylandt, Melville Island etc., organised by American collector and academic Dr Edward Lehman Ruhe. Trove locates a single copy in Australian institutional collections …
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# 46136
BOULTER, Michael and Christopher HODGES
[PAPUNYA TULA; UTOPIA] Australia’s first international art movement
Sydney : Utopia Art, June 1990. Octavo (210 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled, pp. 19, with b/w illustrations; centre pages foxed, otherwise very good. This extremely hard-to-find commercial gallery publication provides a brief overview of the Papunya Tula and Utopia art movements, in the context of the origins of contemporary Aboriginal art. It was written and …
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# 46131
RUHE, Edward L.
Australian bark paintings from the collection of Dr. Edward L. Ruhe
Rochester, MI : Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, 1975. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (lightly rubbed), pp. 32, illustrated. ‘Edward Ruhe (1923-1989) was a Professor of English at the University of Kansas who began collecting Aboriginal art in 1965 while in Australia as a Fulbright Visiting Professor. He built a collection of the highest quality by …
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# 46127
BARRETT, Charles and CROLL, Robert Henderson
Art of the Australian Aboriginal
With a foreword by A. P. Elkin. Melbourne : The Bread and Cheese Club, 1943. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 94, illustrated, occasional light foxing, a very good copy. The book is dedicated to Albert Namatjira and reproduces a number of his paintings. An early survey of indigenous Australian art. Australian Army Educational Library stamp to …
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# 46072
O'CONNELL, Rae et al.
Sting in the tail
Cairns, Qld. : KickArts Contemporary Arts, 2009. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 32, illustrated. Catalogue of indigenous printmakers and their etchings in Cairns.
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# 46073
O'FERRALL Michael
Art from the Great Sandy Desert
Perth, W.A. : The Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1987. Quarto, exhibition catalogue, pp. [8], illustrated. Exhibition curated by Michael A. O’Ferrall ; contributions by R.M. Berndt and J.E. Stanton ; Art Gallery of Western Australia. Catalogue entries with interpretative notes on imagery and associated mythology; introductory essay on development of contemporary art at Balgo …
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# 46076
JOHNSON, Vivien
Australia : Art & Aboriginality 1987
Portsmouth Festival U.K., 9 May to 14 June 1987. Portsmouth : Aspex Gallery, 1987. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [40], exhibition catalogue with a remarkable lineup of indigenous Australian artists. Artists include : Banduk Marika; Roy Marika; Raymond Meeks; James Simon; Trevor Nickolls; Jimmy Pike; George Milpurrurru; Djardi Ashley; Narpula Scobie; Paddy Jupurrula Nelson; Thancoupie; Lin …
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# 46079
MORGAN, Sally (introduction)
Generations : the stolen years of fighters and singers
Perth, W.A. : The Centre for Indigenous History and the Arts, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 40, illustrated. Artists include : Norma MacDonald, Ron Gidgup, Betty Egan, Sandra Hill, David Downs (Jarinjanu), Revel Cooper, Colin Calyun, Julie Dowling, Sheryl Osborne, Michelle Broun, Joyce Winsley, Les Eades, Glenis Ugle, Mary McClean, Tjemma (Freda) Napanangka, Patsy Mundjidell, …
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# 46074
HOFF, Jennifer
Tiwi graveposts
[Melbourne] : National Gallery of Victoria, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [8], illustrated. Tiwi artist Janet Mungatopi is photographed painting motifs on graveposts based on designs that she saw her grandfather paint for funeral ceremonies when she was a small girl.
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# 46077
HOUSE, Matilda and KLEINERT, Sylvia
Narragunnawali : an exhibition by Aboriginal artists living in Canberra and the surrounding region
Civic Square, A.C.T. : Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [12], illustrated. Includes artists Ricky Maynard, Ben Blakeney, Reuben Sky and others.
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# 46080
CROFT, Brenda
Tactility : two centuries of indigenous objects, textiles and fibre
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2003. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, illustrated. “Tactility: two centuries of Indigenous objects, textiles and fibre provides a visual overwiev of the diversity of Indigenous three-dimensional and material objects made over a period of two centuries or more, ranging from traditional to transitional objects, through to recent conceptual and …
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# 46081
PERKINS, Hetti
Aboriginal Women’s Exhibition
Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1991. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 56, illustrated. ‘Exhibition catalogue; works are ceramics, fibre, prints, paintings and sculpture by women from around Australia; includes analysis of artwork in the exhibition; article by Henrietta Fourmile annotated separately.’ – Trove Includes works by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Eubena Nampitjin, Gloria Petryarre, …
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# 46082
McGREGOR, Ken and TRIMBLE, Judith
Tjanpi
Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2011. Series: Macmillan mini-art series number 19. Small square octavo, pictorial boards in dust jacket, 144 pp extensively illustrated. An as new copy on the Tjanpi Desert Weavers.