65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art
$72.00
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
4 November 2024
Summary
65,000 Years: Reclaiming Australian Art History
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art stares into the dark heart of Australia’s brutal colonial history and offers new insights into the first art of this country.
Long before Britain’s invasion of Australia in 1788, First Peoples’ cultural and design traditions flourished for thousands of generations. Their art shaped the continent as we know it today and the societies that thrived here; but these continuing…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760764210 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1760764213 |
| Author: | Marcia Langton, Judith Ryan |
| Publisher: | Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 4 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 2.29kg |
| Dimensions: | 37mm x 309mm x 41mm |
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About The Author
Marcia Langton
Professor Marcia Langton AO, anthropologist, geographer, academic and public intellectual, is a descendant of the Yiman and Bidjara nations of Queensland. Since 2000 she has been Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, where she is Associate Provost.
Ms Judith Ryan AM, an art historian, is Senior Curator, Art Museums at the University of Melbourne and was previously Senior Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Victoria where she played a key role in the development and scholarly interpretation of a nationally important public collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art.
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