Research Catalog

Title

Papunya painting : out of the desert / edited by Vivien Johnson.

Publication

Canberra, A.C.T. : National Museum of Australia Press, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Johnson, Vivien.
• National Museum of Australia.

Description

v, 146 p. : col. ill., maps, ports. (some col.); 29 cm.

Summary

"Exhibition cagalogue supporting exhibition of Papunya Tula Western Desert art, including essays from experts in the field and interpretation of the iconography in the artworks."--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Papunya Tula Artists' Company
• Art, Australian > Exhibitions
• Painting, Aboriginal Australian > Papunya Native Settlement (N.T.)
• Painting, Aboriginal Australian > Western Desert (W.A.)
• Painting, Aboriginal Australian > Papunya Native Settlement (N.T.) > Exhibitions
• Painting, Aboriginal Australian > Western Desert (W.A.) > Exhibitions
• Papunya Native Settlement (N.T.)

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "Papunya painting : out of the desert, National Museum of Australia, 28 November-3 February 2008."--Verso t.p.
• Includes brief biographical details of each artist: p. 135-143.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / Craddock Morton -- Introduction / Michael Pickering -- Papunya, place and time / John Kean -- The extraordinary life and times of Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri: warrior, stockman, artist / Philip Batty -- When Papunya paintings became art / Vivien Johnson -- Painting at Yayayi, 1974 / Fred Myers -- Paintings -- Peter Fannin time 1972-75 -- Janet Wilson and Dick Kimber time 1975-77 -- John Kean time 1977-79 -- Andrew Crocker time 1980-81 -- Reading Papunya paintings -- Objects from Papunya -- The artists -- List of plates.

ISBN

• 9781876944582 (pbk.)
• 1876944587 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008353779

OCLC

185013131

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library