Once Upon a Time in Papunya

Once Upon a Time in Papunya
Vivien Johnson
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Paperback
h234 x 153mm - 400pg
1 Oct 2010 AU
9781742230078
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Astronomical auction prices in the late 1990s first drew many people's attention to the phenomenon of the early Papunya boards, the thousand small painted panels created at the remote Northern Territory Aboriginal settlement of Papunya in 1971-72. Western Desert art expert Vivien Johnson looks at the controversies that surrounded the paintings at the time of their creation ' and what they mean now to the artists' descendants; the role of teacher Geoffrey Bardon; the depiction of sacred imagery, and the distant worlds of art auctions and international exhibitions. A gripping narrative work, this book is an important intervention in Australian art history.
Vivien Johnson is a global professor at the University of New South Wales, the editor in chief of the "Dictionary of Australian Artists On-Line," and the author of "Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists." She has been researching Western Desert art for almost 30 years and recently helped the Papunya community establish their own art center, Papunya Tjupi.
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ISBN-13: 9781742230078
Published: 1 Oct 2010
Published In: Australia
Imprint: NewSouth Publishing
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 400
Dewey: 303.00

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