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

by Wally Caruana

An examination of the bark painting tradition of Arnhem Land, featuring 40 Aboriginal master artists active between 1948 and 1988. The book includes 122 full-colour plates from the National Museum of Australia, alongside scholarly essays and artist biographies.

Accession 36325 ISBN 9781921953163 Publisher National Museum of Australia
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