About this title: 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 fascinating account of Bardon's experiences and the art of Papunya. What started as an exercise to encourage the Aboriginal school children to record their sand patterns and games grew to involve, at the peak of creativity, as many as 30 tribal men and ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne
Date Published: 2005
Description: Near Fine in near fine jacket. Reprint. The book was first published in 2004. Forewords by Hetti Perkins and Robert Edwards. 4to (300 x 250 mm), xxii + 527 pp, illustrated throughout in full colour, drawings, glossary, bibliography, indexes of paintings and artists, general index. From the blurb, 'This 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 ... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: LUND HUMPHRIES
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780853319474ISBN:0853319472
Description: New. Papunya: A Place Made After the Story is a first-hand account of the artists and the works emanating from Papunya: birthplace of the Western Desert Painting Movement. Based on the exquisitely recorded notes and drawings of Geoffrey Bardon, the man wh... read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Miegunyah Press, Carlton
Date Published: 2007/ 2004
Description: Quarto, xxiv, 527 pages with numerous photographs and illustrations as well as 489 paintings reproduced in colour. Colour pictorial wrappers; a fine copy. read more
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Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers,, Aldershot, UK:
Date Published: 2006.
ISBN-13:9780853319474ISBN:0853319472
Description: Fine copy in fine copy. Discusses 489 paintings, each one illustrated in colour and analysed with contextual information about each artist, with glossary, bibliography, index of paintings and artists and general index, 527pp, weighs nearly 3kgs extra postage likely. read more
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