Behind the doors : an art history from Yuendumu

Resource Information

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Label

Behind the doors : an art history from Yuendumu

Title remainder

an art history from Yuendumu

Statement of responsibility

Philip Jones, with Warlukurlangu Artists

Creator

• Jones, Philip G., 1955-

Contributor

• Warlukurlangu Artists
• South Australian Museum

Author

• Jones, Philip G., 1955-

Issuing body

• South Australian Museum

Subject

• Arts, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territority | Yuendumu -- History
• Arts, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory | Yuendumu -- History
• Australian
• Doors in art
• Painted doors -- Northern Territory | Yuendumu
• Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territority | Yuendumu -- History
• Schools -- Northern Territory | Yuendumu -- History
• Schools -- Northern Territority | Yuendumu -- History
• Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory | Yuendumu -- History

Language

eng

Summary

The Yuendumu Doors are among the freshest, most remarkable documents of Aboriginal art. Painted thirty years ago at a remote desert school by artists steeped in ritual knowledge, the Doors survived against the odds. After near-obliteration by desert winds, sun, and childrens graffiti, the Doors have been conserved and their designs restored

Dewey number

704.039915

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• maps

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction