| ISBN |
9780714126944 |
| 0714126942 |
| Author |
Sculthorpe, Gaye (author) |
| Title |
Indigenous Australia : enduring civilisation / Gaye Sculthorpe, John Carty, Howard Morphy, Maria Nugent, Ian Coates, Lissant Bolton, Jonathan Jones. |
| Cover title |
BP exhibition : Indigenous Australia : enduring civilisation |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
London : The British Museum Press, 2015. |
| ©2015. |
| Description |
272 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Note |
At head of title page: the BP exhibition. |
| Published to accompany the exhibition of works from the collection of the British Museum and held at the British Museum, London, 23 April - 2 August 2015. |
| Organised with the National Museum of Australia. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Forewords -- Introduction / Gaye Sculthorpe, Lissant Bolton and Ian Coates -- 1. Understanding country / Howard Morphy and John Carty -- Kimberley spear points / John Carty -- Fibrecraft / Lissant Bolton -- A symphony of lines : reading south-east shields / Jonathan Jones -- Painting country / John Carty -- 2. Encounters in country / Maria Nugent -- `Everything after Cook was between all of us' / Maria Nugent -- William Barak, Coranderrk and the arts of diplomacy / Maria Nugent -- `Let us hear no more of Pigeon' : violence in the Kimberley / Ian Coates -- The Carrolup children's drawings / Ian Coates -- 3. Out of country / Gaye Sculthorpe -- 4. Drawing on country / Gaye Sculthorpe. |
| Subjects |
British Museum -- Exhibitions. |
| Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Exhibitions |
| Aboriginal Australians, in art -- Exhibitions |
| Indigenous art -- Australia -- Exhibitions |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Exhibitions. |
| Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Sculthorpe, Gaye (author.) |
| Carty, John (author.) |
| Morphy, Howard (author.) |
| Nugent, Maria (author) |
| Coates, Ian (author) |
| Bolton, L. M. (Lissant Mary), 1954- (author) |
| Jones, Jonathan, 1978- (author) |
| Other Corporate Bodies |
National Museum of Australia |
| British Museum |
| Call number |
NMA G 2015 |
| NMA 2015 (2 copies) |
