Birrundudu Drawings by John Carty - ISBN: 9781763733145
Hardcover
Lost art rediscovered: Aboriginal knowledge, history, and Country revealed at last.
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    383 pages

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    11 August 2025

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Summary

Birrundudu Drawings is a revelatory body of imagery that recasts the conversation around desert art in Australia, offering a chance to look anew at a phenomenon at risk of drifting from our understanding through the fog of familiarity.

This book brings to the world for the first time artworks from a series of 810 drawings produced in 1945 by Aboriginal men in the Northern Territory, a collection today cared for by the Berndt Museum at the University of Western Austral…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781763733145
ISBN-10:1763733149
Author:John Carty, Luke Scholes, Jason Gibson, Stephen Gilchrist, Jessyca Hutchens, Alistair Patterson
Publisher:Upswell Publishing
Imprint:Upswell Publishing
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:383
Release Date:11 August 2025
Weight:2.07kg
Dimensions:276mm x 257mm x 39mm
About The Author

John Carty

John Carty is Professor of Museum and Curatorial Studies at the University of Adelaide.

Jason Gibson is a Senior Research Fellow at Deakin University.

Stephen Gilchrist is Co-director of the Berndt Museum, UWA.

Jessyca Hutchens is Co-director of the Berndt Museum, UWA.

Alistair Patterson is Chair of Archaeology, UWA.

Luke Scholes is Director of D’Lan Contemporary Melbourne.

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