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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Mountford, C.P.: Aboriginal Paintings from Australia, UNESCO, Milano 1964
Table of Contents ¦ Cover Text ¦ Book Review
Cover Text
All the examples of Aboriginal art in this book are from the caves and bark paintings of Arnhem Land, Australia. Few of the bark paintings were more than a year old when photographed, yet they lead us back into a primitive world of magic and ritual, very similar to that of our own stone-age ancestors. Strange and sinister ribbon spirits dance eerily across the walls of the caves. But the animals drawn on bark, the ant-eaters, crabs and fishes possess a vital, naturalistic quality which has an enormous impact on the spectator.