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Title: Aboriginal representations in the ceramics of Brownie Downing and the Martin Boyd pottery
Author/Creator: Haskins, Victoria
Description: The china painter Brownie Downing and the pottery firm Martin Boyd were significant creators of images of Aboriginal people in Australian popular culture during the 1950s. Brownie Downing's transfer-printed plates and wall-plaques with their Aboriginal children were an inescapable feature of suburban Australian life in the 1950s and 1960s. Likewise, the homeware turned out by the Martin Boyd factory, hand decorated with 'authentic' Aboriginal designs and with images of Arrernte elders, was prominently displayed in popular magazine spreads and department stores of the time.
Relation: The World of Antiques and Art Vol. 58, p. 68-72
Relation: http://www.worldaa.com/Title/World-of-Antiques-and-Art.cfm
Date: 2000
Publisher: Antiques & Art in Australia
Keyword(s): Brownie Downing; Martin Boyd; pottery; aboriginal representations
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/931404
Identifier: ISSN:1443-6027
Language: eng

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