Australia’s Greatest Rock Art

A$500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Bathurst: E.J. Brill Robert Brown Associates (Australia) Pty Ltd, 1988. Oblong folio, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 312, extensively illustrated, previous owner s name to endpaper, erased pencil price to half-title. A very good copy. Summary: Sites and subjects of rock paintings and rock engravings; different rock art techniques stencil art, blown dot, engraved, freehand, beeswax, ochre imprint, scratched, abraded line, com posite stencil, dry pigment drawing, finger marking, positive hand prints; Wandjinas; Lightening Brothers; Rainbow serpent; Namarakah Spirit Women; x-ray style animals and fish; desert art; burial art; painted anthropomorphs. Trove

• Binding: Hardcover

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