Battarbee and Namatjira Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira.

By:

Edmond, Martin [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781922146700
9781922146694

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

ND2089 .B388 2014

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Contents:

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

Subject: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	ND2089 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn893739371

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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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