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Mad̲ayin : Waltjan̲ ga Waltjan̲buy Yolnuwu Miny'tji Yirrkalawuy = eight decades of Aboriginal Australian bark painting from Yirrkala
- Title
- Mad̲ayin : Waltjan̲ ga Waltjan̲buy Yolnuwu Miny'tji Yirrkalawuy = eight decades of Aboriginal Australian bark painting from Yirrkala / edited by Wukun̲ Wan̲ambi, Henry Skerritt and Kade McDonald ; with contributions from Andrew Blake [and 30 others].
- Publication
- Charlottesville : Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the Universitiy of Virginia ; New York : Delmonico Books/D.A.P., 2022.
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- Description
- 347 pages : illustrations (some color); 32cm
- Summary
- This volume chronicles the rise of a globally significant art movement, as told from the perspective of the Yolngu people of northeastern Australia. It presents more than 90 iconic paintings on eucalyptus bark, many of which have never been seen outside of Australia. For millennia, Yolngu people around Yirrkala in northern Australia have painted their sacred clan designs on their bodies and ceremonial objects. These designs--called miny'tji--are not merely decorative: they are the sacred patterns of the ancestral land itself. Yolngu people describe them as madayin: a term that encompasses both the sacred and the beautiful. With the arrival of Europeans in the 20th century, Yolngu people turned to the medium of painting on eucalyptus bark with ochres. The result was an outpouring of creativity that continues to this day as artists find new and innovative ways to transform their ancient clan designs into compelling contemporary statements that are chronicled in this singular publication.
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- Note
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia in partnership with the Buku-Larrngay Mulka Centre. Held at Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, September 3-December 4, 2022 ; American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC, January 28-May 21, 2023; Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach, August-December 2023; The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, February 22-July 21, 2024; Asia Society Museum, New York, September 24, 2024-January 5, 2025.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- ND1101
- ISBN
- 1636810551
- 9781636810553
- OCLC
- 1316775416
- on1316775416
- SCSB-14474021
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries