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Painting Country: Spatial, Somatic and Linguistic Experience in Central Australian Aboriginal Art
Author(s) -
Tavendale Olwyn
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.356
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1834-4461
pISSN - 0029-8077
DOI - 10.1002/ocea.5212
Subject(s) - painting , relevance (law) , history , linguistics , geography , sociology , aesthetics , visual arts , art , political science , philosophy , law
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.