Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mountains, gathering strength for a counterattack. But Cybula, their elder, receives a peace offering. Cybula has his doubts, not only about his enemy's intentions but about the new way of life posed by the prospect of tilling the fields: "It was not necessary to tickle and scratch Mother Earth to make her produce...
...around 1900 assumed they would), they are increasing their numbers. The fate of these people is now one of the prime moral dilemmas Australia faces. It has also made whites more aware of the realities of Aboriginal culture. For here is the oldest continuous tradition of visual art on earth (30,000 years at least, more than twice the age of the Lascaux Cave paintings), tenaciously maintained in the face of pressures from the white majority. It is not a single tradition, for the Aborigines were never a homogeneous people. Between their arrival in Australia 40,000 years...
...Aboriginal art. Something so old is very new -- at least in America. Hence the fascination of "Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia," on view at the Asia Society Galleries in New York City through Dec. 31. This show of some 100 paintings and carvings, the older ones in earth colors on bark, the more recent in modern acrylic pigments on canvas or panel, was mainly lent by the South Australian Museum, the prime collector of this work. Its importance lies in the link between ancestral Aboriginal painting and its contemporary forms -- a third of which, in this show, comes from...
...look at the oldest visual tradition on earth...
...undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana and a former graduate student of Harvard's History Department, Frye has studied Middle Eastern subjects since he was in junior high, when a copy of Tamerlane, the Earth Shaker fascinated him for the first time with that part of the world. With his extensive background in oriental studies, both at Illinois and at Harvard--and later in 1946 as a member of the Society of Fellows here--Frye felt that Harvard needed to offer a more comprehensive program of study on the Middle East. It was at that point, four decades...