Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century

Name: Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century
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ISBN: 9780195533927

ISBN-10: 0195533925

ISBN-13: 9780195533927

Edition: 1994

Authors: Andrew Sayers, Lin Onus, Carol Cooper

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Andrew Sayers examines a considerable body of drawings produced by Aboriginal artists between 1803 and 1903. Never before collected as a genre, these works are retained in museums, libraries, or private hands and have rarely been displayed. Often regarded as inauthentic art because of their stylistic borrowings and fluctuations, they enjoy a unique status as products of the interaction between Aboriginal society and the British colonizers. The largest group of drawings comes from the hands of three artists--Tommy McCrae (c1823-1901), William Barak (c1824-1903), and Ulladulla Mickey (c1820-1891), who produced their drawings in the 1880s and 1890s. Visually these drawings are varied, but they…

Book details

List price: $79.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/22/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 7.78" wide x 10.32" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English



Map


Acknowledgments


Foreword


Introduction


Barak and the affirmation oftradition


Tommy McCrae, Aboriginal artist


Drawing contemporary life


'A Tastefor drawing'


'The dawn of art'


Traditional visual culture in south-eastAustralia


Biographies


Catalogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index