The First Sunrise. Australian Aboriginal Myths in Paintings
Painting and sculpture
088416
Adelaide etc.
1971
18,5×24,5
tvrdi s omotom
79
engleski
Price: 16,50 EUR
This is a highly successful art and folklore book first published in 1971. It is part of a celebrated trilogy that explores Indigenous Australian creation stories through a collaboration between an artist and an anthropologist. Illustrated by Ainslie Roberts with text by anthropologist Charles P. Mountford. It serves as a companion volume to The Dreamtime and The Dawn of Time. It features 32 vibrant, full-color surrealist paintings interpreting diverse Indigenous myths from regions like the Kimberleys, Arnhem Land, and the Blue Mountains. The book was born from the creators' deep fascination with the Australian outback. Charles P. Mountford spent decades collecting traditional myths directly from Aboriginal communities to record how they explained the creation of the world. Ainslie Roberts traveled through remote regions to translate these oral narratives into physical oil and airbrush paintings.While it remains an important historical contribution to Australian art, modern reviewers note that the work approaches Indigenous culture through a heavily romanticized, mid-20th-century Western lens.
