| ISBN |
9783777439167 |
| Title |
Inspired by country : bark paintings from Northern Australia - the Gerd and Helga Plewig collection / edited by Michaela Appel, Museum Fünf Kontinente. |
| Portion of title |
Bark paintings from Northern Australia - the Gerd and Helga Plewig collection |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Munich, Germany : Hirmer Publishers, 2022. |
| ©2022. |
| Description |
375 pages : illustrations (colour), maps, portraits ; 32 cm. |
| Note |
Published on the occasion of the exhibition: Inspired by country : bark paintings from Northern Australia - the Gerd and Helga Plewig collection, Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich. March 18-September 18, 2022. |
| Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this book contains images of, and written references to, people who have passed away. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-374) |
| Contents |
Director's foreword / Uta Werlich -- Ambassador's foreword / H.E. Philip Green -- Iconic images by master painters of Arnhem Land / Luke Taylor and Wally Caruana -- Skin is skin: a shadow history of Aboriginal bark painting / Djon Mundine -- Gerd and Helga Plewig's two decades of collecting / Tim Klingender -- Nayombolmi and Djimongurr : two prolific artists from Western Arnhem Land / Joakim Goldhahn and Sally K. May -- Bark painting in Arnhem Land : cultural context, meaning, and technique / Michaela Appel -- The foundations of Yolngu culture / Michaela Appel -- Rom Watangu : an indigenous leader reflects on a lifetime following the law of the land / Galarrwuy Yunupingu -- Catalogue -- Artists' biographies -- collectors and previous owners -- references - authors' biographies. |
| Summary |
The Gerd and Helga Plewig Collection of Bark Paintings from Northern Australia with works mainly from the 1950s to 1970s is presently considered the best collection of its kind outside of Australia. It includes works from the Kimberley, Wadeye, the Tiwi Islands, Arnhem Land and Groote Eylandt by artists like Yirawala, Mawalan Marika and Mungurrawuy Yunupingu. Painting on bark is part of a continuing artistic tradition of Australian Aboriginal people intimately related to long-established practices of body decoration, rock painting and the manufacture and decoration of various objects in sacred and secular spheres. It is thought to have been practiced for centuries, but has only been known to European researchers and collectors since the early 19th century. Bark painting relates to the time of creation which underlies the present and determines the future. |
| Level |
Tertiary/Undergraduate, General. |
| Subjects |
Plewig, Gerd, -- 1939- |
| Plewig, Helga |
| Bark painting -- Australia, Northern |
| Art - Painting - Bark |
| Art - Artists - Men |
| Bark painting -- Private collections |
| Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Private collections |
| Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia, Northern |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Northern |
| Anthropology -- Private collections |
| Art -- Private collections |
| Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Appel, Michaela (editor) |
| Caruana, Wally, 1952- (author) |
| Goldhahn, Joakim (author) |
| Klingender, Tim (author) |
| May, Sally K. (author) |
| Mundine, Djon (author) |
| Taylor, Luke (author) |
| Yunupingu, Galarrwuy, 1948- (author) |
| Other Corporate Bodies |
Museum Fünf Kontinente (Munich Germany) |
| Call number |
2022.187 |
