Caruana, Wally / Lendon, Nigel (ed): The Painters of the Wagilag Sisters Story 1937 – 1997. Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, 1989. 4° (29x24), 174 p., with 101 art plates and some documentary photos, map, publisher’s pictorial softcover, tight and clean, well cared,

The dramatic ancestral events involving Wititj, the Olive Python, and the two Sisters of the Wagilag clan form the basis of one of the major ceremonial cycles and painting traditions in Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory. The Wagilag Sisters Story tells of the creation of the world and the establishment of rules which govern behaviour, of the encounter between human and animal ancestors, who in the process make sense of their world and its creative forces.

Here, accompanying the narrative in paint by artists of Central and Eastern Arnhem Land, the story is also told by its traditional owners and scholars of Aboriginal art. (publisher)

WARNING:
It is customary in Aboriginal communities not to mention the name or reproduce images of the recently deceased.
All such mentions and images in this book have been reproduced with the express permission of the appropriate authorities and family members. Nonetheless care and discretion should be exercised in using this book within Arnhem Land.

• Kategorie: Kunst Asiatica – asiatische Kunst
• Schlagwörter: Aborigines · Art Brut · Australien australisch; Australia Australian · Kulturethologie Kultursoziologie Kulturanthropologie · Kunst und Künstler, australische; Australian Art and Artist · Mythologie Mythos; mythus; mythology myth
• Sprache: Englisch (en)
• Schutzumschlag
• Bestellnummer: 58048AB KU100

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