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 the hostile white authority. But his legacy was the beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement and the inspiration for this ...
In 1971 a young Sydney art teacher, Geoffrey Bardon, was posted to the government settlement at Papunya in Central Australia. There he found more than a thousand Aboriginal people living in a state of dislocation and degradation. Bardon was not the first European to show interest in the traditional sand mosaics of these dispossessed people, nor ...
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Lowe Art Museum
Date Published: 1991
Description: Fine. 11 x 8 1/2. 86 page beautifully produced exhibition catalogue. Glossy paper and quality color printing showing the items from the Donald Kahn collection. No flaws-unmarked, tight and clean. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Miegunyah Press, Carlton. Reprint
Date Published: 2006
Description: A Place Made After the Story. 4to, 527pp, richly illustrated with over 500 paintings, drawings & photographs. A near fine hardback copy in like dust jacket. The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement. read more
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