Islands in the sun : prints by indigenous artists of Australia and the Australasian region /
Publication details: Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2001.Description: 116 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cmISBN:- 0642541418
- 9780642541413
- Prints, Aboriginal Australian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Prints, Australasian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Prints, Māori -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Art - Print and printmaking
- Art - Economic aspects - Markets - Market places
- Tiwi Islands
- Torres Strait Islands
- Arnhem Land
- Yermalner / Melville Island
- Bathurst Island
- Papua New Guinea
- New Zealand
- Pacific Islands
- NE789.4 .I75 2001
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library NZ & Pacific | NZ & Pacific | NZ&P NE 789 ISL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0002176 |
Exhibition held Feb 17-May 27, 2001 at the National Gallery of Australia.
Includes bibliographical references (page 115).
Forewords / Brian Kennedy and Alice-Anne Boylan -- Introduction / Roger Butler -- Printmaking by Aboriginal Artists / Roger Butler -- Prints from the Tiwi Islands -- Prints by Aboriginal artists from Arnhem Land -- Motif Etching: The history of Ilan printing / Brian Robinson -- Prints from the Torres Strait Islands -- Printmaking in Papua New Guinea / Melanie Eastburn -- Prints from Papua New Guinea -- A Pacific Accent: Polynesian printmakers in Aotearoa New Zealand / Nicholas Thomas -- Prints by Māori artists -- Prints by Pacific Islander artists -- Unfamiliar Territory: An art of constant translation / Nigel Lendon -- The cross-cultural experience.
Overview of 'Islands in the Sun', a major exhibition of contemporary prints by Indigenous artists from Australia and the Australasian region; shared history of European colonisation by these Indigenous people; printmaking as a popular and accessible medium.