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Art from the land : dialogues with the Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Australian Aboriginal art / edited by Howard Morphy and Margo Smith Boles.
- Title
- Art from the land : dialogues with the Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Australian Aboriginal art / edited by Howard Morphy and Margo Smith Boles.
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia ; Seattle : Distributed worldwide ... by the University of Washington Press, 1999.
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- Description
- vi, 266 p. : col. ill., map, ports.; 28 cm.
- Summary
- "The Kluge-Ruhe Collections, now held by the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, is one of the largest and best-documented collections of Australian Aboriginal art outside Australia. Art from the Land focuses on the desert region and Arnhem Land, drawing on the many fine works in the collection and on the authors' detailed knowledge of the artists and their communities to illustrate the unique and complex nature of Australian Aboriginal artistic expression."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Kluge, John Werner, 1914- > Art collections > Catalogs
- Ruhe, Edward Lehman, 1923- > Art collections > Catalogs
- Kluge, John Werner, 1914-2010 > Art collections > Catalogs
- University of Virginia > Art collections > Catalogs
- Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection (University of Virginia) > Catalogs
- Painting, Aboriginal Australian > Catalogs
- Artists > Arnhem Land (N.T.) > Catalogs
- Art > Charlottesville > Catalogs
- Art, Aboriginal Australian > Arnhem Land (N.T.) > Catalogs
- Art > Private collections > Charlottesville > Catalogs
- Genre/Form
- Catalogs
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: the Kluge-Ruhe collection of Australian aboriginal art / Margo Smith Boles -- Flesh, bone and spirit: western Arnhem Land bark painting / Luke Taylor -- Life through art: religion and society in eastern Arnhem Land / Howard Morphy -- The land is full of signs: central north east Arnhem Land art / Djon Mundine -- Wägilak and Djang'kawu: ancestral paintings in the public domain / Wally Caruana -- Touching the land: towards an aesthetic of Balgo contemporary painting / Christine Watson -- What an acrylic can mean: the meta-ritualistic resonances of a central desert painting / Franc̦oise Dussart -- Aesthetics and practice: a local art history of Pintupi painting / Fred Myers.
- ISBN
- 0957713509
- 0646370871 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^00272598^
- OCLC
- 43517789
- SCSB-10260193
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library