Stephen Muecke: Butcher Joe: 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 054 (100 Notes - 100 Thoughts / 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken: Documenta, 13)
Muecke, Stephen
ISBN 10: 3775729038 ISBN 13: 9783775729031
Published by Hatje Cantz, 2012
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In this notebook, Stephen Muecke describes the works of the Aboriginal artist Butcher Joe from Goolarabooloo, who visualized key ideas of his culture in the drawings reproduced here. They show places where the dead visit the living, events at the threshold between waking and sleeping: legends of dreamtime that explain how everything came into existence and that constitute the rules according to which people live. We see dancing, hunting, and working people, spirits, animals, skeletons―particular scenes from history, partially translations of visual and acoustic memories, in which spirits can turn into humans and humans into animals. As a portrait of the indigenous Australian aesthetic, these drawings and the descriptive essay in the notebook allow the reader a personal insight into the world and life of the people and their mythical principles, according to which all―be it animal, human, or plant―is viewed in its potential to transform.Butcher Joe Nangan (1902–1989) was an artist from Broome, West Australia.Stephen Muecke is a writer based in Sydney.
About the Author: Stephen Muecke is Professor of Ethnography at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He studied linguistics and semiotics, completing his PhD on storytelling techniques among Aboriginal people in Broome, Western Australia. Stephen Muecke is Professor of Ethnography at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He studied linguistics and semiotics, completing his PhD on storytelling techniques among Aboriginal people in Broome, Western Australia.
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Title: Stephen Muecke: Butcher Joe: 100 Notes, 100 ...
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good