This book documents the architectural setting in which Kwoma bark paintings are displayed, the technology of painting, the subjects of designs, how the art form is taught, how Kwoma understand the concept of 'style', the criteria people use to judge quality in painting, and the changes that are beginning to take place in the art form.

Scarlett Baron explores the works of two of the most admired and mythologized masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century prose: Gustave Flaubert (1822-1880) and James Joyce (1882-1941). She uncovers the lifelong fascination that Joyce harboured for Flaubert and investigates how this heightened interest inflected his own creative practice.