Aboriginal Art and the Telling of History / Laura Rademaker [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rademaker, Laura, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and history--Australia.

Art and history.

Aboriginal Australians--Historiography.

Aboriginal Australians.

Rock paintings--Australia--Arnhem Land (N.T.).

Rock paintings.

Painting, Aboriginal Australian--Australia--Arnhem Land (N.T.).

Painting, Aboriginal Australian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 183 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

The rock art of Australia is among the oldest, most complex, and most fascinating manifestations of human creativity and imagination in the world. Aboriginal people used art to record their experiences, ceremonies, and knowledge by embedding their understanding of the world in the landscape over many generations. Indeed, rock art serves as archives and libraries for Australia's Indigenous people. It is, in effect, its repository of memory. This volume explores Indigenous perspectives on rock art. It challenges the limits and assumptions of traditional, academic ways of understanding and knowing the past by showing how history has literally been painted 'on the rocks'. Each chapter features a biography of an artist or family of artists, together with an artwork created by contemporary artist Gabriel Maralngurra. By bringing together history, archaeology, and Indigenous artistic practice, the book offers new insights into the medium of rock art and demonstrates the limits of academic methods and approaches

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Nov 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009523332

1009523333

9781009523301

1009523309

9781009523356

100952335X