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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 EarthSong and Desert Art : Painted Literature from Sacred Ground
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'Like the travel memoirs of writers who have wandered the Songlines of the Australian desert under the guidance of indigenous custodians, Aboriginal desert art offers a window into the lyrical and sacred world of the Dreaming. The paintings of the EarthSong exhibition (Australian Catholic University, 2015) embody excerpts from the song-myth cycles of the Western Desert; using ceremonial iconography to portray the actions of Ancestral Beings at specific sites, they form maps of terrain and title deeds to country. An exploration of several of the exhibition’s paintings affords a sense of the beauty, drama and complexity of the song-myth cycles that underpin and connect all of the paintings in the collection.'  (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Literature and Theology Grounding the Sacred in Literature and the Arts in Australia vol. 31 no. 2 June 2017 12218675 2017 periodical issue

    'The guest editors introduce the special issue, ‘Grounding the Sacred in Literature and the Arts in Australia’. Five of the articles in this issue originated from the conference: Grounding the Sacred in Literature and the Arts, held at Australian Catholic University, Sydney, 23–26 July 2015.'  (Editorial Introduction)

    2017
    pg. 164–186
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