Research Catalog

Title

Utopia : the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye / edited by Margo Neale.

Publication

Canberra : National Museum of Australia Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Kngwarreye, Emily Kame, approximately 1910-1996.
• Neale, Margo.
• National Museum of Australia.

Description

270 p. : col. ill.; 30 cm.

Summary

"The catalogue that accompanies Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye tells the story of this senior Anmatyerr woman who became one of Australia's greatest contemporary artists. Essays by national and international commentators offer readers different ways to approach and interpret these artworks, which were created in an environment far away from the influence of the Western Art tradition, and yet have been highly acclaimed and recognised as modernist masterpieces. The catalogue, which includes nearly 100 colour plates of these superb works (many of which are held in small private collections), provides a unique and lasting souvenir of this important exhibition."--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Kngwarreye, Emily Kame, approximately 1910-1996 > Exhibitions
• Painting, Australian > Aboriginal artists > Exhibitions
• Art, Australian > Exhibitions
• Art, Aboriginal Australian > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Reflecting on Emily : a personal response / Tony Ellwood -- Aboriginal modernism? Two histories, one painter / Ian McLean -- The impossible modernist / Akira Tatehata -- Painting the dreaming : sacred expressions from a non-western cultural sphere within a western culture / Yasuyuki Nakai.

ISBN

• 9781876944667 (pbk.)
• 1876944668 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 271681026
• SCSB-10157720

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library