AUSTRALIAN ART Aboriginal –

In 1971, Bardon was posted to the Papunyah settlement in Central Australia. He taught the artists to paint, thus triggering a surge of creative activity. Papunyah is a complete record of the artists and the works emanating from Papunyah and is a firsthand account of the origins of the contemporary art movement in desert Australia.

Discusses Bardon’s early days at Papunya including children and teaching, observations of drawings in sand and relationships with Papunya people, many of whom began producing art works; painting of murals on school; painting and cultural significance of, and community responses to, murals; painting and survival of Western Desert culture; development of artists and of place for artists to paint; Papunya Tula development; structure, subject matter and importance of meanings of paintings; biographies of Papunya painters; selected catalogue of Western Desert art giving visual and haptic representations and stylistic and cultural significances of archetypes and hieroglyphs; The School and the School Murals; water, travelling, fire, spirit, myth and medicine dreamings; bush tucker stories; women’s dreamings; ritual dance dreamings; My Country (homeland) dreamings; the children’s stories; encounters with, and valedictory for, Bardon

• xxiii, 527 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, ports. ; 31 cm.
• Originally published 2004
• #070926
• (Significantly over standard size and weight, so we will request additional shipping cost on Overseas orders or via Abebooks or Biblio.)