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The Artist is a Thief
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The Artist is a Thief
Winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for 2000. The judges commented on this book as 'impressive, tackles central issues without flinching'.
Winner of the 2000 The Australian/Vogel Award.Honoured as the SMH's Best Young Novelists of the Year, 2001.Shortlisted in the Braille Book of the year category, 2002 Vision Australia Library Awards. Nominated for the 2003 International IM
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Winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award, Margaret Thatcher Gandarrwuy is an internationally renowned Aboriginal artist from the remote Mission Hole community in the Northern Territory. Her works command high prices—until a new painting is unveiled. It is discovered slashed, with the words hastily scrawled across it, 'The artist is a thief'.
Is the artist a thief? Is she to blame, or is she the victim of somebody else's fraud? This is a philosophical detective novel with a difference, set in a world where everyone but the 'detective' knows the rules.
Jean-Loup Wild, a Melbourne financial consultant sent by ATSIC to Mission Hole, is caught between the art world, with its wealth, fashions, heroes and sophisticated private language, and the Aboriginal community with its poverty, social problems, kinship ties and unchanging traditional law. If Jean-Loup can find the artist, he can begin to find the secret of what has been happening at Mission Hole.
He can begin, also, to understand how the layers of that mystery lie deep in the bedrock of Australian society.
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The Artist is a Thief by Stephen Gray is praised for its gripping and intricate plot, immersing readers into the dark and thrilling world of art crime. Reviewers commend the engaging character development and the novel's ability to maintain suspense from start to finish. The blending of art and crime elements is highlighted as particularly clever and entertaining, making it an engrossing read for fans of the genre.
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ISBN: 9781865085333
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 October 2001
Country: Australia
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 195.0mm
Weight: 270g
Pages: 300
About the Author
STEPHEN GRAY is a writer and law lecturer who has been living in Darwin since 1989. He teaches subjects in copyright law and indigenous peoples and the law, amongst others, and is involved in teaching indigenous students. Since 1991 he has published a number of articles about indigenous legal issues, including several concerning ways in which indigenous people can gain legal protection for their art and culture. His first novel, Lungfish, won the Jessie Litchfield Award for Literature and was published by Northern Territory University Press in 1999.
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