An edition of The hard light of day (2017)

The hard light of day

an artist's life in the Australian Outback

The hard light of day
Rod Moss, Rod Moss
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An edition of The hard light of day (2017)

The hard light of day

an artist's life in the Australian Outback

"Two years after artist Rod Moss arrived in Alice Springs in Australia's outback to teach painting, he met an indigenous couple who had set up camp in the gully beside his home. Over the next twenty-five years, his friendship with Xavier and Petrina Neil and the friendships that grew from it with the families of Whitegate, an Arrernte aboriginal camp on the outskirts of town, would nourish and challenge Moss beyond his imagining. The Hard Light of Day offers a rare insight into the reality of life in the Outback, from the contours of the MacDonnell Ranges and the textures and sounds of Arrernte culture, to the endemic violence, alcoholism and ill-health that continue to devastate Aboriginal lives. In recalling the relationships and experiences that have shaped his life and work in Alice Springs, Moss reveals the human face behind the statistics and celebrates the enriching, transformative power of friendship. Illustrated with Moss's evocative paintings and photographs, The Hard Light of Day is an incredible journey into a world that is rarely glimpsed, and an artist's chronicle of the moments that have inspired him."--Publisher's website.

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Language
English
Pages
297

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Table of Contents

Preface
Neighbours
The shedding of skin
Welcome to country
Weaving and writhing
Rocks and hard places
The boy child
Of snakes and men
Safety nets
The falling dark
Afterwords
Paintings.

Edition Notes

"First published in Australia by the University of Queensland Press in 2015."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-296).

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
759.994, B
Library of Congress
N7405.M687 A2 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 297 pages
Number of pages
297

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27238566M
ISBN 10
151071720X
ISBN 13
9781510717206
OCLC/WorldCat
954670113

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