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Before Time Began (Hardcover)
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Before Time Began (Hardcover)
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Overview of the Aboriginal Art, focusing on the first large-scale
exhibition staged by the Fondation Opale (Switzerland). The common
thread running right through this work is man's link with the land,
the legacy of the ancestors that still echoes in the present. It is
no accident that Before Time Began is one of the expressions used
by Aboriginal artists in central Australia to refer to the creation
of the world, in an oneiric sense. Understanding and following this
underlying bond enables the reader to explore the art's narrative
content in its association with dreams and the passage of time,
elements that inevitably distinguish the temporal dimension in the
different societies. But it is also a way of exploring the first
stirrings of contemporary art in an Aboriginal context through
works made at the beginning of the 1970s in Arnhem Land and in the
territory of the Papunya, as well as more recent paintings by
artists living in the APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara).
These last examples in particular highlight the fusion between
contemporary art and traditional customs, in which ancestral
knowledge is fused with elements drawn from the inevitable march of
progress.
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