Spirit in Land Bark Paintings from Arnhem Land ( ISBN: 0724101470 )

Author: Judith Ryan, National Gallery of Victoria ; 2002 ; Soft Cover : 120 pages ; English

For the Aboriginals of Australia, bark paintings have long been part of a communications concept where people gather for ceremonies, revelation and rites of passage. Bark is the surface plane of the deep volume of ancestral knowledge outsiders can glimpse but never fully understand. Yet as art and design and with artists' new visual metaphors, the art has a tremendous power. This ancient form made modern blends sacred geometry and cosmic ideas with the concrete and is being avidly collected in the international fine art market. (National Gallery of Victoria) This book is in excellent condition with only minor edge wear on back cover.