Research Catalog

Title

Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century / Andrew Sayers ; with a foreword by Lin Onus and a chapter by Carol Cooper.

Author

Sayers, Andrew, 1957-

Publication

Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press in association with National Gallery of Australia, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Cooper, Carol
• National Gallery of Australia

Description

xiv, 162 p. : ill. (some col.), map, ports.; 27 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Geschichte 1800-1900
• Drawing, Aboriginal Australian > History > 19th century
• Art, Aboriginal Australian > History > 19th century
• Australian aborigines

Genre/Form

Books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-156) and index.

Contents

1. Barak and the affirmation of tradition -- 2. Tommy McRae, Aboriginal artist -- 3. Drawing contemporary life -- 4. 'A taste for drawing' -- 5. 'The Dawn of Art' -- 6. Traditional visual culture in south-east Australia / Carol Cooper.

ISBN

0195533925

LCCN

gb^95010630^

OCLC

• 32781065
• SCSB-10025832

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Harvard Library