Battarbee and Namatjira: Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira
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Main Author: Edmond, Martin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Sydney Giramondo Publishing 2014
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Item Description:Cover; Title Page; Contents; Dedication; Introduction; 1. The Revenant; 2. Initiation; 3. Taos or the Alice?; 4. Achieving Luminosity; 5. Blind Man / New Man; 6. The Offerings of War; 7. High National Policy; 8. Tmara Mara; 9. Painting from Memory; 10. Papunya and After; Note on Sources; Acknowledgements; Copyright
Battarbee and Namatjira is the double biography of artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira, one white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, the other Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the Hermannsburg Mission west of Alice Springs. From their first encounters in the early 1930s, when Battarbee introduced Namatjira to the techniques of watercolour painting, through the period of Namatjira's extraordinary popularity as a painter, to his tragic death in 1959, their close relationship was to have a decisive impact on Australian art. This double biography makes extensive use of Battarb
Physical Description:437 pages
ISBN:9781922146700
1922146706
9781922146694
1922146692

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