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Author National Gallery of Victoria, issuing body

Title Spirit in land : bark painting from Arnhem Land in the National Gallery of Victoria / Judith Ryan
Published [Melbourne] : The Gallery, [1990]

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Description viii, 120 pages : illustrations (some colored), maps
Contents Machine derived contents note: Map iv -- Acknowledgements vi -- Foreword vii -- Sponsor's Message vii -- 1 Introduction 1 -- 2 Contrary Worlds 5 -- 3 The Mission Era 9 -- 4 Evolution of a Market for Paintings -- on Bark 14 -- 5 A Sacred Geometry: Yolngu Art of -- North-Eastem Arnhem Land 22 -- 6 A Vigorous Art: The Diversity of -- Central Amhem Land 48 -- 7 The Cosmic Within the Concrete: -- Art of Western Amhem Land 76 -- 8 Conclusion 104 -- Catalogue 105 -- Notes 117 -- Bibliography 119
Summary History and analysis of bark paintings from Arnhem Land; influence of Macassans and missionaries; marketing; Yolngu; Kunwinjku; rarrk style; artists and craftworkers; training of young artists, apprenticeships
Analysis Bark painting Exhibitions Australia Arnhem Land (N.T.)
National Gallery of Victoria Exhibitions
Painting, Aboriginal Australian Exhibitions Australia Arnhem Land (N.T.)
Notes Exhibition held at the National Gallery of Victoria
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 119-120
Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Subject National Gallery of Victoria -- Catalogs.
National Gallery of Victoria -- Exhibitions.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Art -- Catalogs.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Art -- Exhibitions
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Art
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Exhibitions
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Art -- Exhibitions
Art -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Exhibitions.
Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Exhibitions.
Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
Art, Aboriginal Australian.
Art, Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Aboriginal artists -- Exhibitions
Art, Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Aboriginal artists
Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Exhibitions.
Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
Bark painting -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- History
Bark painting -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Catalogs.
Bark painting -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- History.
Bark painting -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Exhibitions.
Bark painting -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
Gunwinggu (Australian people)
Kunwinjku (Australian people)
Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Exhibitions.
Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Exhibitions.
Painting, Aboriginal Australian.
Yolngu (Australian people)
SUBJECT Arnhem Land (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007377
Genre/Form Catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Author Ryan, Judith, curator
National Gallery of Victoria.
LC no. 91183553
ISBN 0724101470