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Piercing the Ground
by Christine Watson
Price $39.95 
- About the Book
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With its sense that the stunning paintings from the Western Desert bear more than meets the eye, Christine Watson’s Piercing the Ground stands as a highly original and groundbreaking elucidation of Kutjungka painting and a significant addition to what is known as ‘the anthropology of art’. A fitting tribute to her indigenous mentors, this book should change the way people regard contemporary acrylic painting. Image making, she shows, is more of a ‘piercing’ than a ‘painting’ and must be grasped as integrally involving the totality of the senses, treating the skin of the body and the surface of the land as equivalent, and in this way producing its own truth.
- Categories
- History, Art & Photography, Indigenous Writing, Award Winning
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- Awards
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Short listed, AIATSIS Stanner Award, 2004
- ISBN11
- 1 92073 130 X
- ISBN13
- 9 781920 731304
- HB/PB
- Paperback
- Format
- C Format (230 x 152mm)
- Pages
- 400
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From the Catalogue
Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things