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Reconciliation: Indigenous art for the 21st Century

Reconciliation: Indigenous art for the 21st Century

Vol 20 no 1


A major survey of Australian Indigenous art, overviews and polemic, tributes to major artists, social issues, 'scandals ', the Stolen Generation, health and art, diverse practices, exhibitions and commissions, new museum displays, industry matters, labels of authenticity, copyright and moral rights, new media art with maps of areas of activity. 128 pages in full colour


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Nomad to TV star in three years: Walala Tjapaltjarri meets the world

Author: Ms Lotte Waters, feature

In late 1984 Walala Tjapaltjarri and other Pintupi tribespeople walked out of the Gibson desert in WA and met Europeans for the first time. Within a few years Walala adapted his traditional ground and body painting to painting on canvas and was filmed by Robert Hughes for his TV series Beyond the Fatal Shore.



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