Mich interessiert besonders was die Bilder darstellen. Gibt es Interpretationsansätze? Wer kennt songlines?
Welche Bilder? Welche Songlines? Vor allem: welche Ethnie? „Die“ Aborigines gibt es nicht, es handelt sich dabei um diverse, teilweise höchst unterschiedliche Ethnien - die heutzutage überdies nahezu alle hervorragend Englisch sprechen und selbst über ihre Kunst Auskunft geben können.
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Indigenous Australian art includes art made by Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, including collaborations with others. It includes works in a wide range of media including painting on leaves, bark painting, wood carving, rock carving, watercolour painting, sculpting, ceremonial clothing and sandpainting. The traditional visual symbols vary widely among the differing peoples' traditions, despite the common mistaken perception that dot painting is representative of all Aborigin...
A songline, also called dreaming track, is one of the paths across the land (or sometimes the sky) within the animist belief systems of the Aboriginal cultures of Australia which mark the route followed by localised "creator-beings" in the Dreaming. The paths of the songlines are recorded in traditional song cycles, stories, dance, and art, and are often the basis of ceremonies.
The Dreaming, or the Dreamtime, has been described as "a sacred narrative of Creation that is seen as a continuous ...
