Across the desert; Aboriginal batik from Central Australia.

9780724102990

Across the desert; Aboriginal batik from Central Australia.

Ryan, Judith et al.

National Gallery of Victoria

2008

168 pages

$37.50

Paperback

N7400

This volume accompanies an exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia displaying batik textiles and garments by that nation's aboriginal artists. Text highlights the work of women in five communities--Ernabella, Fregon, Utopia, Yuendumu, and Kintore--and address the cultural and aesthetic currents that combined to initiate the practice of batik in the 1970s. Abundant color images compose the bulk of the volume. Distributed in the US by Woodstocker Books.

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