Aboriginal Australia

Australian Gallery Directors Council Ltd, 1981

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Year of publication

1981

ISBN

0295985690

Author

Rowlison, Eric, Carol Cooper, Howard Morphy, John Mulvaney, Nicholas Petersen

Publishers

Australian Gallery Directors Council Ltd

Keyword

Aboriginal boomerangs, clubs, shields, artworks, sclupture, containers, spearthrowers, spears, knives, axes, hooked boomerangs, cylcons, paintings, portraits, war weapons, mats, baskets, dendroglyph, carved trees, clothing, jewelry, weaving, Native People Australia, Wiigie Mia, Cleland Hills, Koonalda, Cobar, Graman, Lake Mungo, Mat. Cameron, Laura, Delamere, Ingaladdi

Binding description

Dust jacket

State of preservation

Very Good

Binding

Softcover

Inscribed

First edition

Description

Exhibition catalog for a show held at the publisher's gallery. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes but a chip at top spine, very light scuffing to covers. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Heavily illustrated with b/w & Color photos, drawings, maps, itemized exhibition sculpture and pieces, with captions and gallery notations throughout. Contents include essays on the art of temperate South-East Australlia, the art of the desert and the art of Northern Australia. Exhibition stops included the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Australian Museum and the Queensland Art Gallery. Exhibition includes Aboriginal boomerangs, clubs, shields, artworks, sclupture, containers, spearthrowers, spears, knives, axes, hooked boomerangs, cylcons, paintings, portraits, war weapons, mats, baskets, dendroglyph, carved trees, clothing, jewelry, weaving, etc.