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The BP exhibition : indigenous Australia enduring civilisation /

Published to accompany the first major UK exhibition on indigenous Australia, this groundbreaking new publication explores the profound impact and legacy of colonialism. The nature of collecting and the changing meaning of objects now in the collection of the British Museum are revealed through cont...

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Main Author: Sculthorpe, Gaye (Author, Curator)
Corporate Author: British Petroleum Company
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : British Museum Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Art, Aboriginal Australian > Exhibitions.
Art, Aboriginal Australian > Collectors and collecting > Exhibitions.
Australia > Colonization > Exhibitions.
ISBN:9780714126944
0714126942
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Gaye Sculthorpe, Lissant Bolton and Ian Coates
  • Understanding country / Howard Morphy and John Carty
  • Kimberley spear points / John Carty
  • Fibrecraft / Lissant Bolton
  • A symphony of lines : reading south-east shields / Jonathan Jones
  • Painting country / John Carty
  • Encounters in country / Maria Nugent
  • "Everything after Cook was between all of us" / Maria Nugent
  • William Barak, Coranderrk and the arts of diplomacy / Maria Nugent
  • "Let us hear no more of Pigeon" : violence in the Kimberley / Ian Coates
  • The Carrolup children's drawings / Ian Coates
  • Out of country / Gaye Sculthorpe
  • Drawing on country / Gaye Sculthorpe.

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