- Bib ID:
- 7753628
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Altman, Jon C., 1954-, author
- Description:
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- Royal Exchange, NSW : Museum of Contemporary Art Australia ; Adelaide, SA Australia : Art Gallery of South Australia, [2018]
- ©2018
- 387, 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps, portraits (chiefly colour) ; 29 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9781921034978 (hardback)
- 9781921034992 (paperback)
- Summary:
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John Mawurndjul AM is celebrated for his mastery of rarrk (fine-painted cross-hatching), a tradition shared by generations of Kuninjku artists. This exhibition of bark paintings and sculptures, by one of Australia's most groundbreaking contemporary artists, tells the stories of Kuninjku culture and the significant locations surrounding the artist's home in western Arnhem Land.
Exhibition catalogue for the major survey show by Aboriginal artist John Mawurndjul. Developed and co-presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and the Art Gallery of South Australia, in association with Maningrida Arts & Culture.
- Notes:
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- Essays : Hetti Perkins, Jon Altman, Murray Garde ; photo essays by Jenni Carter, John Mawurndjul ; image plates : John Mawurndjul ; vignettes : Diane Moon, Luke Taylor, Apolline Kohen, Margie West ; selected biographical notes : Genevieve O'Callaghan ; curator's afterword : Clothilde Bullen, Natasha Bullock, Nici Cumpston, Keith Munro, Lisa Slade ; end matter: Murray Garde, Keith Munro, Genevieve O'Callaghan, Nicola Teffer.
- Exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 6 July - 23 September 2018; and at the Art Gallery of South Australia, 26 October 2018 - 28 January 2019, through Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
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- Perkins, Hetti, 1965-
- Altman, Jon C., 1954-
- Garde, Murray, 1962-
- Carter, Jenni
- Mawurndjul, John, 1952?-
- Moon, Diane
- Taylor, Luke
- Kohen, Apolline
- West, Margie
- Cumpston, Nici
- Munro, Keith
- Slade, Lisa, 1968-
- Teffer, Nicola
- Bullen, Clothilde, editor
- Bullock, Natasha, editor
- O'Callaghan, Genevieve, researcher
- Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (Sydney, N.S.W.), issuing body
- Art Gallery of South Australia, issuing body
- Also Titled:
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- I am the old and the new = Ngayi ngakarrme bokenh-mankerrnge la mankare
- Ngayi ngakarrme bokenh-mankerrnge la mankare
- John Mawurndjul : ngayi ngakarrme bokenh-mankerrnge La mankare
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