Once Upon A Time In Papunya

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Newsouth Publishing
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 343 pages. Ex-Library. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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.

ISBN: 9781742230078