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Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art : collection highlights, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra / edited by Franchesca Cubillo and Wally Caruana.

Title
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art : collection highlights, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra / edited by Franchesca Cubillo and Wally Caruana.
Author
National Gallery of Australia.
Publication
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Cubillo, Franchesca.
  • Caruana, Wally.
Description
256 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map; 26 cm.
Summary
The National Gallery of Australia holds the largest collection of Australian indigenous art in the world. Written by indigenous authors, curators and other experts in the field, this book features 183 works of art which highlight the diversity, richness and excellence of the collection.
Alternative Title
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art : collection highlights, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Subject
  • National Gallery of Australia > Catalogs
  • Art, Aboriginal Australian > Catalogs
  • Art, Torres Strait Islander > Catalogs
  • Art, Australian > Catalogs
  • Art > Canberra (A.C.T.) > Catalogs
  • Art > Canberra > Catalogs
Genre/Form
Catalogs
Note
  • "Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this book contains some names and images of recently deceased Indigenous people. All images and mentions have been reproduced with the express permission of the appropriate representatives and family members, where possible."--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Aboriginal memorial -- 19th-century objects -- Early Western Desert paintings -- Desert paintings after 1975 -- The Kimberley -- Bark paintings and sculpture before 1980 -- Hermannsburg School: Gordon & Marilyn Darling Gallery -- Textiles -- Prints and drawings -- North Queensland and Top End after 1980 -- Torres Strait Islands -- Urban art.
ISBN
  • 9780642334145 (pbk)
  • 0642334145 (pbk)
OCLC
  • 646646474
  • SCSB-9895291
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library