Battarbee and Namatjira / / Martin Edmond ; designed by Harry Williamson
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| Autore: |
Edmond Martin
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| Titolo: |
Battarbee and Namatjira / / Martin Edmond ; designed by Harry Williamson
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| Pubblicazione: | Artarmon, New South Wales : , : Giramondo, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (437 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 759.994 |
| Soggetto topico: | Artists - Australia - 20th century |
| Landscape painters - Australia | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | WilliamsonHarry |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title Page; Contents; Dedication; Introduction; 1. The Revenant; 2. Initiation; 3. Taos or the Alice?; 4. Achieving Luminosity; 5. Blind Man / New Man; 6. The Offerings of War; 7. High National Policy; 8. Tmara Mara; 9. Painting from Memory; 10. Papunya and After; Note on Sources; Acknowledgements; Copyright |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Battarbee and Namatjira is the double biography of artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira, one white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, the other Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the Hermannsburg Mission west of Alice Springs. From their first encounters in the early 1930s, when Battarbee introduced Namatjira to the techniques of watercolour painting, through the period of Namatjira's extraordinary popularity as a painter, to his tragic death in 1959, their close relationship was to have a decisive impact on Australian art. This double biography makes extensive use of Battarb |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Battarbee and Namatjira |
| ISBN: | 1-922146-70-6 |
| 1-922146-69-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812512203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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