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Howard Morphy

Author of Aboriginal Art

20+ Works 329 Members 1 Review

About the Author

Howard Morphy is Director of the Research School of Humanities, Australian National University

Includes the name: Prof Dr Howard Morphy

Works by Howard Morphy

Aboriginal Art (1998) 103 copies, 1 review

The Anthropology of Art: A Reader (2006) — Editor — 34 copies

Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology (1984) — Editor — 32 copies

Ancestral Connections: Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge (1991) 23 copies

The photographs of Baldwin Spencer (2005) — Contributor — 19 copies

Indigenous Australia: Enduring civilisations (2015) — Author — 19 copies

Becoming Art: Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories (2007) 18 copies

Art from the Land: Dialogues With the Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art (1999) 16 copies

Aboriginal Australia : National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Australian Museum, Queensland Art Gallery, 1981-1982 (1981) 13 copies

Australia in Oxford (1988) 12 copies

Animals into Art (1989) — Editor — 12 copies

Yirrkala Drawings (2013) — Contributor — 7 copies

Journey to the crocodile's nest : an accompanying monograph to the film Mad̲arrpa funeral at Gurka'wuy (1984) 6 copies

Culture, Landscape, and the Environment: The Linacre Lectures 1997 (2000) — Editor — 4 copies

Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols: Ethnographic Collections and Source Communities (Museums in Focus) (2019) 2 copies

Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value (Routledge Research in Museum Studies) (2023) 2 copies

Synergies (2003) 2 copies

L'art aborigène (2003) 2 copies

Eastern Arnhem Land Aboriginals Today 2 copies

Reflections on Representations 1 copy

Associated Works

Story of Time (1999) — Contributor — 158 copies

The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art (2011) — Contributor — 16 copies

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Nationality: Australia
Associated Place (for map): Australia

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BlancheHaddow 19 reviews

Aboriginal Art by Howard Morphy

Interesting. I wanted to find out about the subject and although not the most riveting to book still did the job.

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Books in the Bibliography of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber & Wengrow (1)

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Ancestral Connections: Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge (1992)

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Neil MacGregor Director's Foreword

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King Charles III Preface

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Works: 20
Also by: 2
Members: 329
Popularity: #72,115
Rating: 3.8

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 44

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