Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia
New York: George Braziller / The Asia Society Galleries, 1988.
First Edition. Hardcover.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Asia Society Galleries in New York in 1988, and at three other museums.
A comprehensive overview of Aboriginal art and aesthetics as they are integrated within a distinctive Aboriginal tradition.
Publisher’s description: The traditional art forms of the Aborigines are a manifestation of their religious beliefs, which are based on a concept known in English as the Dreaming or Dreamtime. The Dreaming is described as the beginning of the world, when Ancestral Beings moved about. Carving forms out of the formless world, molding the shapes of creeks, desert sandhills, and rain forests, they created the features of the landscape, as well as the plants, animals, and peoples of the known world. The Dreaming is the itinerary of the Ancentral Beings travels across the landscape, as well as the sacred dimension of the present, the driving force which, for the Aborigines, underlies the here and now.
Item #902716ISBN: 0807612014
9-1/2 x 11-1/4", gilt decorated and titled maroon cloth, pictorial endpapers, xiii, 266pp, catalogue, biographies of the artists, notes, references, index, acknowledgments, photograph and collection credits, with over 300 illustrations and 155 color plates.
Fine in very good rubbed dust wrapper with a bit of creasing to extreme edges, in protective mylar. This book is large and heavy and my require additional charges for USPS Priority Mail. Please inquire before purchase as to cost of Priority Mail shipping to your locale.
Price: $65.00