Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century / Andrew Sayers ; with a foreword by Lin Onus and a chapter by Carol Cooper
- Bib ID:
- 416037
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Sayers, Andrew, 1957-2015
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with the National Gallery of Australia, 1994
- xiv, 162 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), facsims., maps, ports. ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0195533925
- 0195539958 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Andrew Sayers examines a considerable body of drawings produced by Aboriginal artists between 1803 and 1903. Never before collected as a genre, these works are retained in museums, libraries, or private hands and have rarely been displayed. Often regarded as inauthentic art because of their stylistic borrowings and fluctuations, they enjoy a unique status as products of the interaction between Aboriginal society and the British colonizers. The largest group of drawings comes from the hands of three artists--Tommy McCrae (c1823-1901), William Barak (c1824-1903), and Ulladulla Mickey (c1820-1891), who produced their drawings in the 1880s and 1890s. Visually these drawings are varied, but they possess many of the aesthetic qualities which characterize contemporary Aboriginal art, displaying intense vitality and an acute understanding of flora and fauna.--publisher.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 151-156.
- Subject:
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- Art, Aboriginal Australian
- Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- 19th century
- History - Biographies - Indigenous
- Art - Production - Materials / techniques
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects
- Art - Drawing
- Weapons
- Art - Artists
- Colonisation
- Healesville / Coranderrk (E Vic Yarra Valley SJ55-06)
- Wahgunyah / Lake Moodemere (E Vic SJ55-03)
- Milton / Ulladulla (NSW S Coast SI56-13)
- Nelligen (NSW S Coast SI56-13)
- Other authors/contributors:
- National Gallery of Australia
- Copyright:
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- Until 2085 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2015
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1994
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