| ISBN |
9781742230078 (pbk.) |
| Author |
Johnson, Vivien |
| Title |
Once upon a time in Papunya / Vivien Johnson. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2010. |
| Description |
vii, 343 p. [48] p. of plates. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-329) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. The School of Kaapa -- 2. 'So Beautiful' -- 3. The Pintupi Factor -- 4. The Problem of Secrecy -- 5. The Midas Touch -- 6. The Object of Protection -- 7. Give Those Men a Real Voice -- 8. The Icons Precedent -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
Astronomical auction prices in the late 1990s first drew many peoples 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. |
| Subjects |
Bardon, Geoff, -- 1940-2003 |
| Tjampitjinpa, Kaapa Mbitjana |
| Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd |
| Art, Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Papunya |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Papunya -- Painting |
| Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Papunya |
| Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Western Desert |
| Cultural property -- Australia |
| Cultural policy -- Australia |
| Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Australia |
| Art, Australian -- 20th century |
| Art and mythology |
| Australia -- Cultural policy |
| Papunya (N.T.) -- In art |
| Call number |
704.039915 JOH |
