Groote Eylandt Art: Leonhard Adam Ethnological Collection Part One
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Spiral binding.
From the remote shores of Groote Eylandt, a rugged island nestled in the Gulf of Carpentaria, comes a remarkable window into one of Australia's most distinctive Indigenous artistic traditions. Groote Eylandt Art: Leonhard Adam Ethnological Collection Part One chronicles the meticulous work of renowned ethnologist Leonhard Adam, presenting a curated catalogue of Aboriginal artworks and material culture gathered from this culturally rich community, where bark paintings, ceremonial objects, and figurative works speak to a living cosmology thousands of years in the making. Adam's scholarship sits at the intersection of art history and anthropology, arguing persuasively for the aesthetic and ethnographic significance of Groote Eylandt's visual language at a time when Indigenous Australian art was only beginning to receive serious academic attention in Western institutions. The collection illustrates the depth of symbolic meaning encoded in each piece — from the bold, graphic forms of fish and ancestral figures to the intricate dot and line work that maps both physical and spiritual landscapes. This volume stands as a foundational document in the study of Australian Aboriginal art, raising the question of what further revelations await in the collections yet to come.
Author: Leonhard Adam
Format: Paperback
Published: 1973, University of Melbourne
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Spiral binding.
From the remote shores of Groote Eylandt, a rugged island nestled in the Gulf of Carpentaria, comes a remarkable window into one of Australia's most distinctive Indigenous artistic traditions. Groote Eylandt Art: Leonhard Adam Ethnological Collection Part One chronicles the meticulous work of renowned ethnologist Leonhard Adam, presenting a curated catalogue of Aboriginal artworks and material culture gathered from this culturally rich community, where bark paintings, ceremonial objects, and figurative works speak to a living cosmology thousands of years in the making. Adam's scholarship sits at the intersection of art history and anthropology, arguing persuasively for the aesthetic and ethnographic significance of Groote Eylandt's visual language at a time when Indigenous Australian art was only beginning to receive serious academic attention in Western institutions. The collection illustrates the depth of symbolic meaning encoded in each piece — from the bold, graphic forms of fish and ancestral figures to the intricate dot and line work that maps both physical and spiritual landscapes. This volume stands as a foundational document in the study of Australian Aboriginal art, raising the question of what further revelations await in the collections yet to come.