Painting Country: Spatial,Somatic and Linguistic Experience in Central Australian Aboriginal Art |
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Authors: | Olwyn Tavendale |
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Abstract: | A demonstration that the spatial experience informing some Central Australian Aboriginal art is topographically precise brings into question the relevance of structuralist methodologies for appraising these maps of country. Qualitative aspects of spatial, somatic, linguistic and emotional experiences are found to inform the way‐finding depicted in paintings by artists of three language groups. |
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Keywords: | Aboriginal art song lines space body emotions |
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