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Old masters : Australia's greatest bark artists
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Old masters : Australia's greatest bark artists

by Alisa Duff, Wally Caruana

Documenting one of the world's oldest continuing art traditions, this volume showcases the work of forty master Aboriginal bark painters from Arnhem Land. It features scholarly essays, biographies, and 122 full-colour plates of works created between 1948 and 1988.

Accession 21610 ISBN 9781921953163 Publisher National Museum of Australia
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