| Main Title: |
Yirawala : painter of the dreaming / Sandra LeBrun Holmes. |
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| Author: |
Holmes, Sandra.
Yirawala, 1894-1976.
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| Imprint: |
Sydney, NSW : Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. |
| Collation: |
160 pages, 88 pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits, hardcover ; 29 cm. |
| Summary: |
Contents:
1. Like leaves going out on the tide -- 2. The Yirawala Museum -- 3. Make balanda understand my drawings -- 4. Handprints and signs are our title deeds signed by vanished hands -- 5. Southern art tour, 1971: paintings and stories inseparable from the land -- 6. Honoured for the art he considered a sacred book -- 7. Battle for the land -- 8. We all stand up straight today -- 9. Give us our land -- 10. A hand over our mouths -- 11. Gov'ment give me humbug, that's all -- 12. Get up Barra, make big storms, drown the whole country -- 13. Money is water that flows away, the land is there forever -- 14. My fire has gone out, my spirit is going home -- 15. Art or religion? -- 16. The ceremonial series.
One of the great traditional Aboriginal artists and elder of the Gunwinggu tribe. |
| Subject: |
Yirawala.
Kunwinjku (First Nations Australian people)
First Nations Australians
Biography
Art and artists
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| ISBN: |
0340549653 |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliography (page 160).
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