Art from the Land dialogues with the Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art 1st Hardback Edition by Morphy, Howard; Boles, Margo Smith (eds) - 1999

Charlottesville VA: University of Virginia, 1999. 1st. Very Good/None. Softcover, exhibition catalog illustrated in color, 266 pages. The Kluge-Ruhe Collections, now held by the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, is one of the largest and best-documented collections of Australian Aboriginal art outside Australia. Art from the Land focuses on the desert region and Arnhem Land, drawing on the many fine works in the collection and on the authors' detailed knowledge of the artists and their communities to illustrate the unique and complex nature of Australian Aboriginal artistic expression. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Record # 380321

University Press of Virginia, 2000-01. Paperback. Good.

University of Virginia, Charlottesville 1999. 28.0 x 23.0cms, 266pp, colour illusts, very good+ paperback & cover This catalogue has 4 chapters on Arnhem Land art (bark paintings; religion & society; ancestral paintings in the public domain). There are another 3 chapters on desert (Balgo, the meta-ritualistic resonances of Central Desert painting; Pintupi painting)

Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia, 1999. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Black cloth with embossed design, gilt spine titles, red & color illustrated DJ. VI, 266 pp. The Kluge-Ruhe Collections, now held by the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, is one of the largest and best-documented collections of Australian Aboriginal art outside Australia. Art from the Land focuses on the desert region and Arnhem Land, drawing on the many fine works in the collection and on the authors' detailed knowledge of the artists and their communities to illustrate the unique and complex nature of Australian Aboriginal artistic expression. --From the book jacket.

Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Charlottesville, University of Virginia, 1999. Quarto, vi, 266 pages with numerous colour illustrations. Colour pictorial card covers very slightly rubbed; an excellent copy. 'The Kluge-Ruhe Collection is one of the outstanding collections of Aboriginal art outside Australia' (from the introduction). The collection focuses on the desert region and Arnhem Land.

University of Virginia 1999. Quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering & decoration to front board, patterned eps, illus full title page with patterned transluscent frontspiece, vi + 266pp, illus, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light to moderate fading to spine)

Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia, 1999. Softcover. VG. White & color illus. wraps, VI, 266 pp., many color illus. The Kluge-Ruhe Collections, now held by the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, is one of the largest and best-documented collections of Australian Aboriginal art outside Australia. Art from the Land focuses on the desert region and Arnhem Land, drawing on the many fine works in the collection and on the authors' detailed knowledge of the artists and their communities to illustrate the unique and complex nature of Australian Aboriginal artistic expression. --From the book jacket.

Charlottesville, Virginia, USA: The University of Virginia, 1999. Inscription printed on front free endpaper. 266 pages with colour illustrations. The Kluge-Ruhe Collection, now held by the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, is one of the largest and best documented collections of Australian Aboriginal art outside of Australia. The book focuses on the desert region and Arnhem Land. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.