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From Dull to Brilliant: The Aesthetics of Spiritual Power among the Yolngu
Abstract
In this essay I shall consider aspects of the aesthetics of Yolngu art. I am concerned primarily with a category of painting produced by men, but I place my analysis in the broader framework of the aesthetics of Yohigu ritual.1 The Yolngu are an Australian Aboriginal people, renowned in the anthropological literature as the Murngin, who live in north-east Arnhem Land, a coastal area of northern Australia.
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“For instance, pattern in Aboriginal art embodies concepts of ancestral spiritual power (Morphy 1992)”
From Art (Pre)History: Ritual, Narrative and Visual Culture in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe (2020) · cites this paper as Morphy 1992
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- Authors
- Morphy, H.
- Corresponding author
- Morphy, Howard
- ORCID
- Morphy, Howard
- Venue
- Anthropology Art and Aesthetics
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressOxford
- Published
- 1992-09-24
- Pages
- 181-208
- OpenAlex
- W4388358997
- Cited by
- 55
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 4 · 2015: 3 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Australian Indigenous Culture and History
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Art, Aesthetics, and Perception
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Cultures and History
- Keywords
- Yolngu art, aesthetics, spiritual power, Aboriginal art, ritual, Arnhem Land
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