Emily Kam Kngwarray
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few artists have blazed as brilliantly and briefly across the art world as Emily Kam Kngwarray, the Anmatyerre elder from Utopia in the Northern Territory who took up painting in her eighties and went on to become one of Australia's most celebrated and internationally recognised artists. This landmark publication, produced in conjunction with the National Gallery of Australia, presents a comprehensive survey of her extraordinary body of work — from her early batik textiles to the sweeping, luminous canvases that would captivate galleries from Tokyo to Paris — chronicling a creative life of astonishing depth and authenticity. Kngwarray's art is inseparable from her deep spiritual connection to Alhalkere, her country, and this volume illuminates the rich ceremonial and cultural traditions that formed the bedrock of her visual language. Scholars and curators unpack the mythological underpinnings of her signature mark-making, revealing how her abstract forms simultaneously channel ancestral knowledge and anticipate international contemporary art movements. For anyone seeking to understand the power and complexity of Indigenous Australian art, this is an essential and profoundly moving volume.
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Format: Hardback
Published: 2023, National Gallery of Australia
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few artists have blazed as brilliantly and briefly across the art world as Emily Kam Kngwarray, the Anmatyerre elder from Utopia in the Northern Territory who took up painting in her eighties and went on to become one of Australia's most celebrated and internationally recognised artists. This landmark publication, produced in conjunction with the National Gallery of Australia, presents a comprehensive survey of her extraordinary body of work — from her early batik textiles to the sweeping, luminous canvases that would captivate galleries from Tokyo to Paris — chronicling a creative life of astonishing depth and authenticity. Kngwarray's art is inseparable from her deep spiritual connection to Alhalkere, her country, and this volume illuminates the rich ceremonial and cultural traditions that formed the bedrock of her visual language. Scholars and curators unpack the mythological underpinnings of her signature mark-making, revealing how her abstract forms simultaneously channel ancestral knowledge and anticipate international contemporary art movements. For anyone seeking to understand the power and complexity of Indigenous Australian art, this is an essential and profoundly moving volume.