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Ancient Ochres : The Aboriginal Rock Paintings of Mount Borradaile
By: David Roberts, Adrian Parker
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| Retail Price: | $60.00 |
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ISBN: 1876622423
Date Published: September 2003
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The Mount Borradaile region in the Top End of Australia's Northern Territory contains some of the world's most spectacular and elaborate rock paintings. For much the estimated 55,000 years of human habitation in this area, the inhabitants recorded their presence in ochre on rock. Painting was one of their most important and durable mediums for describing life, law and history. Unrivalled in terms of variety and vividness, the Mount Borradaile rock paintings document countless millenia of human and environmental change.
Ancient Ochres is the first book to catalogue and describe the remarkable rock paintings of the Mount Borradaile region. Although some of these paintings have been known to non-Aborigines for decades, most have been only recently discovered and are published here for the first time. The authors present a spectacular and wide-ranging pictorial record of the region's rock art, illustrating the enormous variety and diversity of painting styles and subjects, from the most ancient works to the most recent, drawing on an extensive body of scholarship and local knowledge to relate the nature and significance of the paintings in terms of local environment and cultural history.
About the authors:
David Andrew Roberts was awarded his PhD by the University of Newcastle in 2001, with a thesis on the colonial frontier at Wellington Valley (New South Wales). He has been published in Australian Historical Studies, the Journal of Australian Colonial History and Ethnohistory.
Adrian Parker is an artist, author and musician who has worked in Kakadu National Park since 1994. He is the author of Images in Ochre: The Art and Craft of the Kunwinjku (1997) and Didjeridu Dreaming (2003), and acted as the art historian for the National Geographic film Quest for the Rainbow Serpent (2002).
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- Arts & Entertainment » History of Art & Design Styles » Art Styles Not Defined by Date » Art of Indigenous Peoples
- Society & Culture » Social Groups » Ethnic Studies » Indigenous Peoples
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