Streets of Papunya : the re-invention of Papunya painting / Vivien Johnson
- Bib ID:
- 6818198
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Johnson, Vivien, author
- Description:
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- Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2015
- ©2015
- 239 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps, portraits (some colour), colour genealogical tables ; 29 x 25 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781742232430 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Some of Australia's most exciting contemporary art comes from the daughters of the ground-breaking Papunya Tula artists of the 1970s, the founding fathers of the desert art movement. Streets of Papunya is the story of the women painters of Papunya today, rising stars of a new art centre called Papunya Tjupi Arts. Among them are some of the first women in the desert to join the original Papunya art movement, who continue Papunya's rich history as the birthplace of contemporary Indigenous art. Western Desert art expert Vivien Johnson reveals the whole history of Papunya as a site of art production, from Albert Namatjira's final paintings, executed in Papunya days before his death in 1959, through Papunya's glory days of the 1970s and '80s, the dark time when it was known as 'carpetbagging capital of the desert' to its inspirational renaissance, as its leading painters reinvent Papunya painting for the twenty-first century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography (pages 228-231) and index.
- Subject:
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- Papunya Tula Artists
- Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Papunya
- Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Papunya
- Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Papunya -- History
- Women painters -- Northern Territory -- Papunya
- Art - Painting - Acrylic - Dot
- History - Genealogy and family history
- Art - Subjects - Landscapes
- Art - Art motifs - Dot
- Art - Artists - Women
- Papunya (N.T.) -- History
- Papunya (South Central NT SF52-16)
- Australian
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- Publication date:
- 2015
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