Inspired by country : bark paintings from Northern Australia - the Gerd and Helga Plewig collection

Resource Information

The work Inspired by country : bark paintings from Northern Australia - the Gerd and Helga Plewig collection represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Inspired by country : bark paintings from Northern Australia - the Gerd and Helga Plewig collection

Title remainder

bark paintings from Northern Australia - the Gerd and Helga Plewig collection

Statement of responsibility

edited by Michaela Appel, Museum Fünf Kontinente

Title variation

Bark paintings from Northern Australia - the Gerd and Helga Plewig collection

Creator

• Appel, Michaela

Contributor

• Taylor, Luke
• May, Sally K.
• Museum Fünf Kontinente (Munich, Germany)
• Yunupingu, Galarrwuy, 1948-
• Klingender, Tim
• Mundine, Djon
• Caruana, Wally, 1952-
• Goldhahn, Joakim

Author

• Yunupingu, Galarrwuy, 1948-
• Caruana, Wally, 1952-
• Goldhahn, Joakim
• Klingender, Tim
• May, Sally K.
• Mundine, Djon
• Taylor, Luke

Host institution

• Museum Fünf Kontinente (Munich, Germany)

Subject

• Plewig, Helga
• Plewig, Gerd, 1939-
• Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Northern
• Art - Artists - Men
• Art - Painting - Bark
• Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia, Northern
• Bark painting -- Australia, Northern
• Bark painting -- Private collections -- Australia, Northern | Germany | Munich
• Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Private collections

Genre

• Private collections

Language

eng

Summary

The Gerd and Helga Plewig Collection of Bark Paintings from Northern Australia with works mainly from the 1950s to 1970s is presently considered the best collection of its kind outside of Australia. It includes works from the Kimberley, Wadeye, the Tiwi Islands, Arnhem Land and Groote Eylandt by artists like Yirawala, Mawalan Marika and Mungurrawuy Yunupingu. Painting on bark is part of a continuing artistic tradition of Australian Aboriginal people intimately related to long-established practices of body decoration, rock painting and the manufacture and decoration of various objects in sacred and secular spheres. It is thought to have been practiced for centuries, but has only been known to European researchers and collectors since the early 19th century. Bark painting relates to the time of creation which underlies the present and determines the future

Cataloging source

UKMGB

Dewey number

759.994290899915

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits

Index

no index present

LC call number

ND1101

LC item number

.I57 2022

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography