Australian Aboriginal art, one of the world’s most vibrant continuing traditions, is now achieving global recognition. Contemporary society has taken a great interest in the art of the Yolngu people, once-obscure hunter-gatherers from Arnhem Land. Yolngu’s varied artistic expressions, include body painting, sand sculptures, painted skulls, hollow log coffins, and art forms that anticipated Western art’s expressionism or performance art. Aboriginal art can only be understood when it is integrated with sequences of action and as performance genres.
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