Seller: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Armadale, VIC, Australia
Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2011. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 400, illustrated, a new copy. A collaborative enterprise between FORM, the National Museum of Australia, and nine Aboriginal arts and cultural centres, leading to a major publication and exhibition. An extraordinary volume, documenting the relationships between art, people and country from an indigenous and European perspective along the epic Canning Stock Route in Western Australia. 'During five years of extensive research FORMs Canning Stock Route Project has derived an extraordinary body of cultural and historical knowledge through a unique collaboration with Aboriginal artists and contributions from ten remote community arts and cultural organisations spanning the Western Desert. This book diversely articulated, dynamic with Indigenous voices, scholarly, insightful, visually breathtaking and comprised entirely of previously unpublished material will be richly rewarding for all who wish to deepen their knowledge of the Country and its people.' - the publisher.