Literature in our Collection
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Museum of Contemporary Art (Hg.): They are Meditating. Bark Paintings from the MCA's Arnott's Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2008, Ausst. Kat., ISBN 9781921034237

Table of Contents        ¦         Cover Text        ¦         Review⁄Abstract

Table of Contents

Elizabeth Ann Macgregor: Foreword -1-

A. S. Dawson: Preface -3-

On Bark Painting

*Raymattja Marika: Totems and Clan Design -7-

*Wandjuk Marika and Jennifer Isaacs: Most Important is the Line. Wandjuk Marika Speaks of Painting -9-

*Djon Mundine: An Aboriginal Soliloquy -15-

*John von Sturmer: A Limping World. Works in the Arnott's Collection - Some Conceptual Underpinnings -35-

From East to West. Bark Painting Across the Top End

*Lindy Allen: The Aesthetic and Magical. Groote Eylandt Bark Painting -57-

*Djon Mundine: The Spirit Within. North-Eastern and Central Arnhem Land -77-

*Luke Taylor: From Rock to Bark. Art from Western Arnhem Land -147-

*Kim Barber: A History of Art in the Wadeye Region. Christopher Pugar and the Hidden Years -217-

Maps -225-

Index of Works

*Groote Eylandt -233-

*North-Eastern and Central Arnhem Land -235-

*Western and South-Western Arnhem Land -252-

*Wadeye (Port Keats) -267-

*Tiwi Islands -268-

Acknowledgements -270-