AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART –

Gives a first-hand account of the artists and the works emanating from Papunya. Geoffrey Bardon’s exquisitely recorded notes and drawings are reproduced here, showing his extensive documentation of the early stages of the painting movement.

In 1971, a hopeful, young art teacher drove the long, lonely road from Alice Springs to the Aboriginal outpost settlement at Papunya. His name was Geoffrey Bardon. Eighteen months later, he left Papunya, defeated by a hostile white authority. But his legacy was the beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement.

What started as an exercise to encourage the Aboriginal schoolchildren to record their sand patterns and games grew to involve, at the peak of creativity, as many as 30 tribal men and elders. With Bardon’s encouragement, these men worked to preserve their traditional Dreamings and stories in paint.

Papunya: A Place Made After the Story is a first-hand account of the artists and the works emanating from Papunya. Bardon’s exquisitely recorded notes and drawings are here reproduced showing his extensive documentation of the early stages of the painting movement. This book features more than 500 paintings, drawings and photographs from Bardon’s personal archive.

First Edition.

• xxiii, 527 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, ports. ; 30 cm. #080825

• • Aboriginal Australians — Northern Territory — Papunya — Painting
  • Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Western Desert — Painting
  • Painting, Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Western Desert
  • Painting, Australian — Aboriginal artists — Biography
  • Painting (Australia)
  • History of art

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