The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture
Edited by Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale
Price: £45.00 (Hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-550649-5
Publication date: 25 January 2001
OUP Australia & New Zealand
804 pages, 40 colour plates, numerous black and white illustrations, 246x189 mm
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| - 'the careful arrangement and linkage of information does what a Companion should; it gives the reader a sense of exploring a vibrant Aboriginal landscape in company with a series of highly articulate guides.' - TLS 04/01/2002
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| Description | | - There is a strong overseas interest in Aboriginal art, especially in Europe and North America. There are major exhibitions planned in the USA and the Hermitage, as well as exhibitions accompanying this publication within Australia.
- Meticulous and lengthy preparation, aided by a $310,000 Getty grant and $30,000 Gordon Darling Foundation grant.
- 400 illustrations, 40 of them in colour.
- Distinguished list of contributors.
| This unique publication will provide a wide-ranging and intellectually challenging reference to indigenous Australian art, covering documented archaeologically traditions, art styles of the early contact period and the nineteenth century, and the development of the remarkably diverse contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art practices that have attracted so much attention in recent
years. The Companion will draw upon much original research on art and culture in remote Aboriginal communities, and on the emergence of Aboriginal art in urban institutions, markets, and exhibitions. Academics, graduates, and general readers will find concise and authoritative analysis on specific topics and regional traditions, unavailable even in specialist databases. Distinguished indigenous
and non-indigenous scholars have been commissioned to write on individuals, artistic traditions, and historical shifts. The Companion will address more fully than any previous book important regional variations and historical developments in relation to colonial occupation and white Australian society over time. The Companion's primary emphasis is upon visual art, though survey entries on
indigenous literature, theatre, and music among other areas provide a wider context.
Essays, 'boxes' and 'voices' will be commissioned from well-established and emerging indigenous and non-indigenous writers. The presence of key historical figures such as Oodgeroo Noonucal and Kevin Gilbert will be heard through excerpts from previously published material or the use of archival sources made
available for the first time.
The visual component in the Companion is not viewed as simply an adjunct to or illustration of the written text, but is seen to be vitally important to its rationale. Visuality has contributed to the growing critical acclaim and widespread popularity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art nationally and internationally. Therefore extensive illustrations in
colour and in black and white will be included to not only offer a critical understanding of objects and events but to acknowledge the key role visuality plays in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. The 400 illustrations will be extensively captioned and some of the entries will be read as visual storyboards, equally as important as the essays. Complementing this focus on visuality,
there will be additional reference material: maps, diagrams, chronologies providing a comprehensive listing of the major exhibitions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, locally and oveseas and guides to further reading. |
| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Sylvia Kleinert and
Margo Neale
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