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Aboriginal Art by MORPHY HOWARD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art & Ideas S.
Aboriginal art has survived the colonial period to become a major feature of contemporary Australian society. This book surveys the great variety in Aboriginal art, from ancient rock paintings to powerful modern works in acrylic on canvas. The patterns and symbols of Aboriginal art, though they may at f ...Show more
Ancestors, Artefacts, Empire - Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museums by Gaye Sculthorpe (Editor); Maria Nugent (Editor); Howard Morphy (Editor)
Category: History
Museums across Great Britain and Ireland hold Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (collectively referred to as 'Indigenous') cultural heritage of exceptional value, but which is largely unknown, rarely seen, and poorly understood. Gifted, sold, exchanged, and bartered by Indigenous people, and accepte ...Show more
Animals into Art by Howard Morphy
Category: Art and Design | Series: Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology
This book is one of a series of volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its widest sense, investigating how people lived in the past and how and why changes took place to result in the forms of society and culture which exist now. The ...Show more
Discovering Cook's Collections by Michelle Hetherington (ed.); Howard Morphy (ed.)
Category: Books
Publication delayed - now dueDoP - April 2009, Australia 235 x 172mm Discovering Cook’s Collections focuses on the collections of art and material culture brought back from the Pacific on Captain Cook’s voyages and contains essays by some of the world’s leading and most innovative historians and anthrop ...Show more
The Inside World - Contemporary Memorial Poles from Aboriginal Australia by Henry Skerritt; Sally Salvesen (Editor); Howard Morphy (Contribution by); Diana Nawi (Contribution by); Kimberley Moulton (Contribution by)
Category: Art and Design
This groundbreaking book focuses on contemporary memorial poles, one of the most unique forms of contemporary Aboriginal Australian art. Traditionally used in Aboriginal funeral ceremonies, memorial poles have been transformed into compelling contemporary artworks. The memorial pole is made from the tr ...Show more
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