Seeing the Inside: Bark Painting in Western Arnhem Land (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology - Cultural Forms) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Seeing the Inside: Bark Painting in Western Arnhem Land (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology - Cultural Forms) Book

A study of one of the world's great visual art traditions and its role in the society that produces it. The bark painting of Aboriginal artists in western Arnhem Land are examined in relation to the cultural meaning of their work and the continuing role of their paintings within their own society.Read More

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    Seeing the Inside is the first detailed study of one of the world's great visual art traditions and its role in the society that produces it. The bark painting of Aboriginal artists in western Arnhem Land is the product of a unique tradition of many thousands of years' duration. In recent years it has attracted enormous interest in the rest of Australia and beyond, with the result that the artists, who live primarily as hunters in this relatively secluded region of northern Australia, now paint for sale to the world art market.

    Though the richness and power of Aboriginal arts are now, belatedly, finding wide recognition, they remain insufficiently understood. In this thoroughly illustrated book Luke Taylor examines the creative methods of the bark painters and the cultural meaning of their work. He discusses, on the one hand, the arrangements which allow the artists to project their culture onto an international stage, and on the other, the continuing social and religious roles of their paintings within their own society. The result is a remarkable and fascinating picture of artistic creativity in a changing world.

  • 019823354X
  • 9780198233541
  • Luke Taylor
  • 28 November 1996
  • Clarendon Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 304
  • illustrated edition
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