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Dot Circle and Frame : the making of Papunya Tula art / Kean, John.

Dot Circle and Frame : the making of Papunya Tula art / Kean, John.
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ISBN 9780645536812
Author Kean, John (author)
Title Dot Circle and Frame : the making of Papunya Tula art / Kean, John.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Perth, WA : Upswell, 2023.
Description 375 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Summary The course of Australian art changed in 1971. Kaapa Tjampitjinpa, Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula were central to the formulation of a radical new form of desert art. Standing out among an exceptional cohort of painting men at Papunya (a remote government settlement in Central Australia) this 'gang of four' closely related artists deployed their inherited iconography while exploring poetic possibilities offered by paint on canvas. Each was responsible for innovations that still influence contemporary desert art. Papunya Tula art did not emerge from barren ground, and John Kean's fine-grained study reveals the artform's surprising sources, from its wellspring in the ceremonies of Central Australia to the popular culture of the mid-twentieth century. Rather than commencing his analysis in 1971, John Kean foregrounds the contested intercultural context in which the artists came into manhood, showing how they achieved their agency, first as stockmen and labourers, then as artists. 'Dot circle & frame' draws on social history, visual anthropology, as well as formal art analysis to identify how the key innovations that informed contemporary desert art were realised to show just how a new vision of ceremony and Country was assembled, and these four artists claimed a pivotal a space in the history of Australian art.
Subjects Papunya Tula Artists
Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Papunya
Painting, Australian -- Aboriginal artists -- Northern Territory -- Papunya
Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Papunya
Call number 2023.126
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