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Australian art / Andrew Sayers.
LIBRA N7400 .S39 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sayers, Andrew, 1957-
- Series:
- Oxford history of art
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Australian.
- Art, Aboriginal Australian.
- Physical Description:
- v, 257 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- This comprehensive survey uniquely covers both Aboriginal art and that of European Australians, providing a revealing examination of the interaction between the two. Painting, bark art, photography, rock art, sculpture, and the decorative arts are all fully explored to present the rich texture of Australian art traditions. Well-known artists such as Margaret Preston, Rover Thomas, and Sidney Nolan are all discussed, as are the natural history illustrators, Aboriginal draughtsmen, and pastellists, whose work is only now being brought to light by new research. Taking the European colonization of the continent in 1788 as his starting point, Sayers highlights important issues concerning colonial art and women artists in this fascinating new story of Australian art.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0192842145
- OCLC:
- 45829435
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