Old masters : Australia's great bark artists

Author(s): National Museum of Australia

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Main Title
Old masters : Australia's great bark artists
Publisher
Canberra, ACT, Australia : National Museum of Australia Press, 2013
Collation
240 p. : Illustrations (chiefly color)
31 cm.
ISBN
9781921953163
Dewey Class
759.011074
Language
English
Subject
Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Exhibitions.
Bark painting -- Australia -- Exhibitions.
Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Exhibitions.
BRN
11672

Notes

  • Old Masters: Australia's Great Bark Artists is a celebration of Aboriginal bark paintings drawn exclusively from the National Museum of Australia's collection. This rich collection of Aboriginal bark paintings is the largest in the world, with many pieces dating back to the 1930s. Among the 'heroes' of this collection are two influential artists, Narritjin Maymurru and Billy Yirawala, whose works feature prominently in this book. Old Masters is illustrated with large-scale photographic reproductions of 122 bark paintings from the collection. Essays from key scholars of Australian Indigenous bark painting, including Howard Morphy, Wally Caruana and Luke Taylor. The exhibition includes important works by famed painters from across Arnhem Land'

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