Wildbird Dreaming

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In recent times a great, new, but ancient art form has excited the world with paint-I ings of tremendous presence, energy and I life force. These are the paintings from the Aboriginal artists of the Central Deserts of Australia, known collectively as the Papunya I School.
These powerful and moving paintings ; speak strongly of the still-living mythology j of the desert Aborigines and their deep involvement with their traditional territories.
The paradox of Papunya art is, that as rock, ground and body painting, it is the ancient traditional art of a people who have lived in Australia for over 40,000 years. Now transferred to canvas and sent out to the
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world in its modern form, Papunya paint-I ing has existed for less than two decades.
In this work, leading Australian critic, . Nadine Amadio, brings to the reader an approachable introduction to the paintings I and, in underlining the bond between the I artists and their land, arouses a greater awareness of the needs of... Tovább

Fülszöveg

In recent times a great, new, but ancient art form has excited the world with paint-I ings of tremendous presence, energy and I life force. These are the paintings from the Aboriginal artists of the Central Deserts of Australia, known collectively as the Papunya I School.
These powerful and moving paintings ; speak strongly of the still-living mythology j of the desert Aborigines and their deep involvement with their traditional territories.
The paradox of Papunya art is, that as rock, ground and body painting, it is the ancient traditional art of a people who have lived in Australia for over 40,000 years. Now transferred to canvas and sent out to the
I
world in its modern form, Papunya paint-I ing has existed for less than two decades.
In this work, leading Australian critic, . Nadine Amadio, brings to the reader an approachable introduction to the paintings I and, in underlining the bond between the I artists and their land, arouses a greater awareness of the needs of today's Aborigines.
Northern Territory writer Richard Kim-¦j ber, who has a unique and trusted relation-' ship with the Aborigines, gives the reader a wonderfully accessible history of Euro-' pean contact with the Central Desert Aborigines. His original work brings a new ^ vision to our current knowledge, while the sensitive photographer and songwriter Barry Skipsey reveals the contemporary miracle ! of Papunya art with his fine reproductions of the paintings.
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