Aboriginal Art and Spirituality

North Blackburn, Victoria: HarperCollinsPublishers; Dove, 1995. 151 pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First paperback edition. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Painting has become a powerful vehicle for the transmission of a culture: the myths, stories and practices reverenced by particular groups are encoded in the images in paint on boards and canvases to be revealed in layers to those who can see. This book is about those images, the immediacy of their impact as works of art, their meanings as expression of the deep and abiding spirituality of the Aboriginal peoples. The images, even in reproduction, entice, invite and sometimes confront, for they express a way of life and a value system alien to the Western ones. Yet many are powerful works of art able to stand alongside the great artists expressions of this century." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Art; Barhurst and Melville Islands, by Margie West; Arnhem Land, by Luke Taylor; Groote Eylandt, by Rosemary Crumlin; Turkey Creek, by Clare Ahern; Daly River, by Eileen Farrelly; Fitzroy Crossing: Duncan Kentish; Balgo, by Michael Rae; Lajamanu, by Judith Ryan; Yuendumu, by Felicity Wright; Blackstone Ridge, by Roy Churcher; Utopia, by Christopher Hodges; Papunya, by Gabrielle Pizzi; Ngukurr; Anthony Knight; Urban art, by Fiona Foley; Talking about the Art. The religious sources of Australian Aboriginal art, by Max Charlesworth; Of myth and symbol, and art in the everyday, by Chris Anderson; Sharing the land: land rights and the spirituality of Aboriginal art, by Frank Brennan; Responding to Aboriginal art: a view from the outside, by Margaret Woodward; Collectors and enthusiasts, by Margaret Carnegie, Janet Holmes a'Court, Ruth Hall; Three Aboriginal voices, three Aboriginal artists, by Michael Nelson Tjakamarra, Banduk Marika, Peter Skipper; Catalogue.. 1st.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.