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Battarbee and Namatjira Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Sydney : Giramondo Publishing, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (437 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781922146700
  • 9781922146694
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ND2089 .B388 2014
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
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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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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