Rarrk – John Mawurndjul : a journey through time in northern Australia

A$100 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Belair, South Australia : Crawford House Publishing, 2005, Large quarto (280 x 230 mm), pictorial card covers with French flaps, 238 pp, colour illustrations; a fine copy. Published on the occasion of the exhibition. Museum Tingely, Basel: 21 September 2005 to 29 January 2006 ; Sprengel Museum Hannover: 19 February to 5 June 2006 . Comprehensive monograph to explore the many facets and avenues not only of John Mawurndjul s work but following up on daily, practical and theoretical issues influencing Australian indigenous art. (NLA) Contents: I never stop thinking about my rarrk / John Mawurndjul in an interview with Apolline Kohen. From Mumeka to Basel: John Mawurndjul s artistic odyssey / Jon Altman. John Mawurndjul I ve got a different idea / Luke Taylor. Reverberation of image and essence in John Mawurndjul s bark painting / Judith Ryan. From rarrk to etching / Jean Kohen. How the rainbow serpent became art: a short manual for looking at unfamiliar pictures / Hans-Joachim Muller. Grids, dots and territory / Philippe Peltier. Marks on and of land: the relationship of rock and bark painting to peoples, places and the ancestral past / Paul S. Tacon. Bark painting: a singular aesthetic / Judith Ryan. Perceptible boundaries: aesthetic experience and cross-cultural understanding with a view to John Mawurndjul / Claus Volkenandt. The inevitable collision between politics and Indigenous art / Gary Foley. Karel Kupka in Australia: artist, collector, writer, anthropologist. Aborigina

• Binding: Hardcover

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