Viewing ofReference Material
Art students and others conducting research are welcome to make an appointment with us to view the works listed in the adjacent table.
It is also recommended for Europeans to use the online search system at KVK (Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog), in which all German and many European scholarly libraries list their available references. Sometimes the works are available for loan.
A list of further references about Australian art, which however are not yet in our reference collection, is also maintained and continually extended.
Literature in our Collection
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Cane, Scott: Pila Nguru. The Spinifex People, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle 2002, ISBN 1863683848
Table of Contents ¦ Cover Text ¦ Book Review
Table of Contents
Introduction -9-
Spiritual Journey -21-
A Place in the Sun -51-
Tjukurrpa -81-
Terra Nullius and Ngura Tjantu -115-
The Past in the Present -157-
Living in Spinifex -203-
Epilogue - A Blue Tarp and a White Parchment -245-
Endnotes -250-
Bibliography -254-
Maps
Location of the Spinifex Homelands -6-
The Spinifex Homelands -8-
The Geography of Spinifex Tjukurrpa -84-
The Country of Senior Spinifex People -145-
Cover Text
The People of the Sun and Shadow are the Spinifex People. The duality reflects their association with the land, defines their kinship and is the backbone of their religion. That association with land, law and people continued, cocooned within the spinifex plains of the Western Desert, for hundreds of generations until the Spinifex People were shaken from their nomadic solitude by the atomic shock of Maralinga. It was 1952 and the Spinifex People were about to meet white Australia.