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Author Johnson, Vivien, author

Title Once upon a time in Papunya / by Vivien Johnson
Published Sydney : New South, 2010
Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2010
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Description vii, 343 pagesages 46 unnumbered pagesages of pageslates : illustrationsustrations (some colouror), portraits ; 24 cm
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
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-329) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Bardon, Geoff, 1940-
Tjampitjinpa, Kaapa Mbitjana, approximately 1920-1989.
Papunya Tula Artists' Company.
Aboriginal Australians -- Painting -- Australia -- Papunya Native Settlement (N.T.)
Aboriginal Australians -- Painting -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Papunya
Art and mythology.
Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Papunya Native Settlement (N.T.)
Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Papunya
Art, Aboriginal Australian.
Art, Australian -- 20th century.
Cultural policy -- Australia.
Cultural property -- Australia.
Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia.
Cultural policy.
Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Western Desert
Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Papunya Native Settlement (N.T.)
Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Desert (N.T.)
Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Papunya
Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.)
Painting, Aboriginal Australian.
SUBJECT Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Cultural policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005456
Papunya Native Settlement (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86083168 -- In art. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011412
Papunya Native Settlement (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86083168 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Author Tjampitjinpa, Kaapa Mbitjana, approximately 1920-1989.
LC no. 2010534711
ISBN 1742230075 (paperback)
9781742230078 (paperback)