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Murruwaygu : following in the footsteps of our ancestors.

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Author Jones, Jonathan, 1978-
Title Murruwaygu : following in the footsteps of our ancestors.
Publisher and/or associated date/s 2018.
Description 1 online resource (pdf)
Dissertation Thesis (PhD)--University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 2018.
Summary "This research considers one particular element of Koori artistic practice in south-east Australia—the unique and continuing use of the line by the region’s male artists. Line-work is evident in a range of imagery, in various mediums, and throughout different generations. This study reveals the cultural importance and unbroken use of the line through changing social, political and cultural climates" --"Representing Mumala (grandfather) or first generation is pre-contact material—the carved and designed marga (parrying shield) and girran.girran (broad shield). The second or Babiin (father) generation features 19th-century Koori artists William Barak, a Wurundjeri man from the current Melbourne area, and Tommy McRae, from the upper Murray River near the contemporary border of NSW and Victoria. These artists documented their changing worlds with introduced materials like paper, pen and pencil, continuing line-work as a leading visual principle. The third or Wurrumany (son) generation focuses on self-taught senior Wiradjuri mission artists Uncle Roy Kennedy and the late HJ Wedge. Both use painting and printmaking that features line-work to document their life experiences of growing up on missions in NSW under segregation policies. Finally, the Warunarrung (grandson) generation is represented by professional and tertiary-educated contemporary Melbourne-based artists Reko Rennie (Kamilaroi) and Steaphan Paton (Gunai/Monero), who both work with new mediums while continuing line traditions. Like these Koori artists, this thesis uses the line as its organising principle, both practically and metaphorically, to follow in the footsteps of our ancestors. Focusing on continuity and change, this research provides the first art-historical account of Koori men’s art from pre-contact to today" --excerpts from abstract.
Subjects Barak, William, -- Yarra Yarra chief,1824-1903
McRae, Tommy, -- approximately 1836-1901
Kennedy, Roy
Wedge, Harry, -- 1958-2012
Paton, Steaphan
Rennie, Reko, -- 1974-
Weapons - Shields
Art, Aboriginal Australian
Artists, Aboriginal Australian
Call number Online resource
Internet Site Link to thesis via OPUS at UTS
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