Research Catalog

Title

Seeing the centre : the art of Albert Namatjira 1902-1959 / Alison French.

Author

French, Alison, 1950-

Publication

Canberra, Australia : National Gallery of Australia ; Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors

• Namatjira, Albert, 1902-1959
• Araluen Centre for Arts and Entertainment (Alice Springs, N.T.)
• National Gallery of Australia

Description

ix, 166 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports.; 29 cm.

Summary

Seeing the centre: the art of Albert Namatjira 1902-1959.

Alternative Title

Art of Albert Namatjira 1902-1959

Subject

• Namatjira, Albert, 1902-1959 > Exhibitions
• Aboriginal Australians > Art > Exhibitions
• Artists, Aboriginal Australian > Exhibitions
• Watercolor painting, Australian > Australia, Central > Aboriginal artists > Exhibitions
• Australia > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at The Araluen Centre for Arts and Entertainment, Alice Springs, NT, July 28-Sept. 22, 2002 and four other locations through Nov. 2, 2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-158).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Albert Namatjira: the man and his art -- Discoveries: depicting his world -- Light on Ljalkaindirma: the shifting shadow -- Transformations: light begets colour -- The animate void: gaps and gorges -- Sights and sites: distant peaks and monoliths -- Intimate communities: palm trees arrangkeye and other rare plants -- Saplings and survivors: portraits of trees -- Looking at land: the panoramic frame -- Albert's gift / Brenda L. Croft.

ISBN

• 0642541248 (pbk.)
• 0642541361

LCCN

^^2003386407

OCLC

• 52248952
• SCSB-10552463

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library