Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Stephen Muecke: Butcher Joe: 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 054

5/5 ( ratings)

In this notebook, Australian writer Stephen Muecke describes the works of the Aboriginal artist Butcher Joe , who depicted the key ideas of his culture in the drawings reproduced here. These drawings show places where the dead visit the living, events at the threshold between waking and sleeping--legends of dreamtime that explain how the universe came into existence and the laws according to which people live. As a portrait of the indigenous Australian aesthetic, these drawings and the descriptive essay in the notebook allow the reader insight into the world and life of the people and their mythical principles, according to which all things-be they animal, human, or plant-is viewed in terms of its potential to transform.

Language: English

Pages: 28

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers

Release: April 28, 2012

ISBN: 3775729038

ISBN 13: 9783775729031

Stephen Muecke: Butcher Joe: 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 054

5/5 ( ratings)

In this notebook, Australian writer Stephen Muecke describes the works of the Aboriginal artist Butcher Joe , who depicted the key ideas of his culture in the drawings reproduced here. These drawings show places where the dead visit the living, events at the threshold between waking and sleeping--legends of dreamtime that explain how the universe came into existence and the laws according to which people live. As a portrait of the indigenous Australian aesthetic, these drawings and the descriptive essay in the notebook allow the reader insight into the world and life of the people and their mythical principles, according to which all things-be they animal, human, or plant-is viewed in terms of its potential to transform.

Language: English

Pages: 28

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers

Release: April 28, 2012

ISBN: 3775729038

ISBN 13: 9783775729031

More books from Stephen Muecke

Wild Cat Falling

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Aboriginal Australians: First Nations of an Ancient Continent

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Paperbark: A Collection of Black Australian Writings

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Reading the Country: Introduction to Nomadology

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Ancient and Modern: Time, Culture and Indigenous Philosophy

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Metamorphoses Of The Body

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Joe in the Andamans

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Contingency in Madagascar

The Children's Country: Creation of a Goolarabooloo Future in North-West Australia

The Mother's Day Protest and Other Fictocritical Essays

Cultures of Trade: Indian Ocean Exchanges

The Children's Country (Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures)

LaTour and the Humanities

Rogue Flows: Trans-Asian Cultural Traffic

Rate this book!

Write a review?