This award winning art book is perhaps the best book I've found for explaining quickly and clearly the deep issues involved in interpreting Aboriginal art.
The essay by Christine Nicholls deals with Petyarre's personal history and the cultural detail and Ian North's contribution focuses more on a personal viewpoint that contextualises the artist and her cultural productivity.
Kathleen Petyarre is one of the very best contemporary practioners: her art uses current materials but is really traditional in the indigenous Australian sense.
The book features many colour reproductions of her paintings, diagrams explaining motifs used in her work, and photographs of the artist working in her desert community and engaging at high professional levels around the globe.
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