The life & times of Albert Namatjira / Ken McGregor
- Bib ID:
- 8556158
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- McGregor, Ken, 1959-, author, photographer
- Description:
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- [Camberwell, Vic.] : Badger Editions, 2021
- ©2021
- 448 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 31 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781922252340 (hardback)
- Summary:
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An insightful study of Albert Namatjira and his art, produced in close consultation with the Namatjira family and Namatjira Legacy Trust. The substantial text (which includes photographic illustrations) occupies the first 170 pages, and follows Namatjira from his early life at Hermannsburg and his ostracism for marrying a woman of the wrong skin group, to his association with Rex Battarbee and the development of a distinctive painting style which led to his first solo exhibition in Melbourne in 1938; it investigates the artist's response to public acclaim and the consequences that ensued from commercial success, his struggles against bureaucracy and exploitation, and the sadness and alienation of his final days at Morris Soak. The next 250 pages illustrate over 450 works from across Namatjira's career chronologically (many of the key works are illustrated full-page) in three discrete sections: Catalogue of Works of the 1930s; Catalogue of Works of the 1940s; Catalogue of Works of the 1950s. These high quality colour plates are followed by two short chapters, Solo Exhibitions and Selected Group Exhibitions. -Based on information from Douglas Stewart Fine Books.
- Notes:
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- Foreword by Mervyn Rubuntja, Chairman, Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre and Independent Director, Namatjira Legacy Trust, Alice Springs.
- Designed and edited by Jenny Zimmer.
- Edition of 1000 copies.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 442) and index.
- Binding:
- Laminated pictorial boards in illustrated dust jacket.
- Subject:
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- Namatjira, Albert, 1902-1959
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Central -- Biography
- Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia, Central -- Biography
- Painters, Aboriginal Australian
- Landscape painters -- Australia, Central -- Biography
- Watercolor painting, Australian -- Australia, Central -- 20th century
- Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- 20th century
- Landscape painting -- Australia
- Watercolor painting -- Australia
- Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Ntaria / Hermannsburg (South Central NT SF53-13)
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Life and times of Albert Namatjira
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2021
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