Battarbee and Namatjira

Battarbee and Namatjira
Author: Martin Edmond
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1922146692

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Battarbee and Namatjira is the biography of two artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira, one white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, the other Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the Hermannsburg Mission south of Alice Springs. From their first encounters in the early 1930s, when Battarbee introduced Namatjira to the techniques of water-colour painting, through the period of Namatjira’s popularity as a painter, to the tragic circumstances leading to his death in 1959, their close relationship was to have a decisive impact on Australian art. This biography, illustrated with photographs, makes extensive use of Battarbee’s diaries for the first time, to throw new light on Namatjira’s life, and to bring Battarbee, who has been largely ignored by biographers, back into focus. Some of its findings will be controversial. By moving between the artists and their backgrounds, and looking closely at the nature of their friendship, Edmond is able to portray the personal and social complexities the two men faced, while at the same time illuminating larger cultural themes – the treatment of the Arrernte and Indigenous people generally, the influence of the Lutheran church, the development of anthropology, and the evolution of Australian art.

Indifferent Inclusion

Indifferent Inclusion
Author: Russell McGregor
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 0855757795

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Combining the perspectives of political, social and cultural history, this book presents a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the mid 20th century. The author provides an insightful history of the changing nature of race relations in Australia.

Rattling Spears

Rattling Spears
Author: Ian McLean
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2016-06-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1780236239

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Large, bold, and colorful, indigenous Australian art—sometimes known as Aboriginal art—has made an indelible impression on the contemporary art scene. But it is controversial, dividing the artists, purveyors, and collectors from those who smell a scam. Whether the artists are victims or victors, there is no denying the impact of their work in the media, on art collectors and the art world at large, and on our global imagination. How did Australian art become the most successful indigenous form in the world? How did its artists escape the ethnographic and souvenir markets to become players in an art market to which they had historically been denied access? Beautifully illustrated, this full stunning account not only offers a comprehensive introduction to this rich artistic tradition, but also makes us question everything we have been taught about contemporary art.

Namatjira

Namatjira
Author: Scott Rankin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Art, Aboriginal Australian
ISBN: 9780868199160

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Albert Namatjira was a man of firsts: the first successful indigenous artist and the first indigenous man to be made an Australian citizen. At the height of his fame in the 1950s Albert Namatjira's shows sold out within minutes. If you didn't own one of his paintings you probably had a print in your lounge room. He also supported over six hundred members of his community, lost two of his ten children to malnutrition, was forbidden to own land, imprisoned for having a drink with his friends, and died a broken man. Namatjira is a whole-hearted tribute to a great man.

Modern Aboriginal Paintings

Modern Aboriginal Paintings
Author: Reginald Ernest Battarbee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1972
Genre: Aranda (Australian people)
ISBN: 9780709130222

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Art in the Aranda

Art in the Aranda
Author: Vanessa York
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2007
Genre: Landscape painters
ISBN: 9781877454080

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Brief factual information about the Aranda Aboriginal Australian landscape artist Albert Namatjira, and his friend and fellow artist Rex Battarbee. Followed by a play recreating incidents in Namatjira's career. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

Mapping Modernisms

Mapping Modernisms
Author: Elizabeth Harney
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2018-11-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0822372614

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Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products, the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas of Primitivism through visual forms and philosophical ideas. Although often overlooked in the literature on global modernisms, artists, artworks, and art patrons moved within and across national and imperial borders, carrying, appropriating, or translating objects, images, and ideas. These itineraries made up the dense networks of modern life, contributing to the crafting of modern subjectivities and of local, transnationally inflected modernisms. Addressing the silence on indigeneity in established narratives of modernism, the contributors decenter art history's traditional Western orientation and prompt a re-evaluation of canonical understandings of twentieth-century art history. Mapping Modernisms is the first book in Modernist Exchanges, a multivolume project dedicated to rewriting the history of modernism and modernist art to include artists, theorists, art forms, and movements from around the world. Contributors. Bill Anthes, Peter Brunt, Karen Duffek, Erin Haney, Elizabeth Harney, Heather Igloliorte, Sandra Klopper, Ian McLean, Anitra Nettleton, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Ruth B. Phillips, W. Jackson Rushing III, Damian Skinner, Nicholas Thomas, Norman Vorano

The Heritage of Namatjira

The Heritage of Namatjira
Author: Jane Hardy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Aboriginal Australians
ISBN: 9780855614430

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A comprehensive survey of watercolours by the Aranda (Arrernte) artists of central Australia P a school of painting founded by Albert Namatjira. Twelve expert contributors (anthropologists, historians, art critics and collectors) review the history and stylistic development of this art. This book was prepared with the full co-operation of the Aboriginal artists and communities concerned, and includes colour reproductions of their work, biographical details, an index and a bibliography. Published to coincide with the national exhibition which opened in Adelaide in November.

Indigenous Schooling in the Modern World

Indigenous Schooling in the Modern World
Author: Neil Hooley
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004505423

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This book supports the formal education of all Indigenous children who live in different circumstances in different countries, taking Indigenous philosophy as its starting point, while recognising that in many colonial and post-colonial circumstances, Indigenous knowledge, culture and language may not be valued.

Indigenous Transnationalism

Indigenous Transnationalism
Author: Lynda Ng
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1925818071

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After Aboriginal author Alexis Wright’s novel, Carpentaria, won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007, it rapidly achieved the status of a classic. The novel is widely read and studied in Australia, and overseas, and valued for its imaginative power, its epic reach, and its remarkable use of language. Indigenous Transnationalism brings together eight essays by critics from seven different countries, each analysing Alexis Wright’s novel Carpentaria from a distinct national perspective. Taken together, these diverse voices highlight themes from the novel that resonate across cultures and continents: the primacy of the land; the battles that indigenous peoples fight for their language, culture and sovereignty; a concern with the environment and the effects of pollution. At the same time, by comparing the Aboriginal experience to that of other indigenous peoples, they demonstrate the means by which a transnational approach can highlight resistance to, or subversion of, national prejudices.