"ONE SUN ONE MOON – ABORIGINAL ART IN AUSTRALIA". Collectif sous la supervision de Hetti PERKINS & Margie WEST. Editions The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney. 2007. Fort petit in-4, couverture toilée noire sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs. 368 pages. Textes en anglais, illustré de très nombreuses reproductions photographiques couleurs et noir & blanc, in-texte et hors texte. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme à la Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney, du 03 Juillet au 02 Décembre 2007.

 

"As our ancestors emerged from, shaped, named and returned to the earth, so too successive generations of Indigenous artists have indelibly left their imprint on Australia's cultural map. The work of our artists today bears the imprimatur of a cultural heritage spanning millennia. ln the ever-shifting cultural landscape of Indigenous Australia, One Sun One Moon catalogues a key moment of transition over the decades at the turn of the century. Drawing on the insight of many distinguished artists, curators and scholars, One Sun One Moon reveals the view from within a kaleidoscopic art movement: from pre-European contact to the present. The advent of contemporary Indigenous visual arts from Australia as a unique presence in world art is a phenomenon that runs against the grain of Western modernism. At odds with a premise of modernity - to erase the old with the new - is the apparent conundrum of the world's oldest continuous culture being the wellspring of a dynamic contemporary art movement. Australian Indigenous art resists interpretation outside of its historicity and continues to elude definition in terms relevant to Western art theory…" Hetti Perkins.

 

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