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Art - Papunya - Western Desert Painting Movement - Bardon
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'Papunya' - A Place Made After the Story - The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement by Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon in very good condition.
The blurb:- In 1971, a hopeful young art teacher drove the long, lonely road from Alice Springs to the Aboriginal outpost settlement at Papunya. His name was Geoffrey Bardon. Eighteen months later, he left Papunya, defeated by a white authority. But his legacy was the beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement.
What started as an exercise to encourage the Aboriginal schoolchildren to record their sand patterns and games grew to involve, at the peak of creativity, as many as thirty tribal men and elders. With Bardon's encouragement, these men worked to preserve their traditional Dreamings and stories in paint. The artistic movement unleashed at Papunya spread over Central Australia and has since achieved international acclaim. The Western Desert Painting Movement provided the rest of the world with new ways of seeing.
'Papunya' - A Place Made After the Story is a first hand account of the artists and the works emanating from Papunya. Bardon's exquisitely recorded notes and drawings are here reproduced showing his extensive documentation of the early stages of the painting movement, This book features more than 500 paintings, drawings and photographs from Bardon's personal archive. Many of the images have never been seen before and many of the paintings are now lost. The publication of this material is an unprecedented achievement, and Bardon can now be seen as the catalyst he was for a powerfully modern expression of an ancient indigenous way of seeing the world.
Among other things, the late Geoffrey Robert Bardon AM was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1998 for service to the preservation and development of traditional Aboriginal art forms, and made three documentary films and had two previous publications. After his death in 2003, his older brother James helped realise this, Geoffrey's last book.
Contents page is shown in photo 3.
528 pages. Published by The Miegunyah Press in 2007. ISBN 978-0-52285-434-3. [Approx 30 x 24.5 x 4cms & 2720g].
This large, informative and well illustrated book is in very good condition with pages clean, tightly bound and the beginnings of creasing of the spine [it is quite thick]. Covers show minor signs of use/storage as per photos 1 & 2 with minor rubbing wear to parts of the very bottom edges front and back, and the spine has faded slightly from life in a bookcase. There is a very liitle bit of colour rub on the first couple of pages, and there is a very small mark between the inside of the back cover and the blank page opposite [could be stray ink]. And there are a couple of marks to the top edge of the closed pages. That sticker on the front indicates that this won the 2005 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards.
Also have some other art related books listed separately at present including 'Aboriginal Art' by Wally Caruana.
Please note:-
- Inspections welcome.
- Best to phone [three&two zero&nine seven&one eight&two] if you are keen to collect. I don't use a mobile and often only get to check messages late in the evening, so please check your email for replies [they sometimes end up in your Spam folder].
- No Paypal [sorry]
The blurb:- In 1971, a hopeful young art teacher drove the long, lonely road from Alice Springs to the Aboriginal outpost settlement at Papunya. His name was Geoffrey Bardon. Eighteen months later, he left Papunya, defeated by a white authority. But his legacy was the beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement.
What started as an exercise to encourage the Aboriginal schoolchildren to record their sand patterns and games grew to involve, at the peak of creativity, as many as thirty tribal men and elders. With Bardon's encouragement, these men worked to preserve their traditional Dreamings and stories in paint. The artistic movement unleashed at Papunya spread over Central Australia and has since achieved international acclaim. The Western Desert Painting Movement provided the rest of the world with new ways of seeing.
'Papunya' - A Place Made After the Story is a first hand account of the artists and the works emanating from Papunya. Bardon's exquisitely recorded notes and drawings are here reproduced showing his extensive documentation of the early stages of the painting movement, This book features more than 500 paintings, drawings and photographs from Bardon's personal archive. Many of the images have never been seen before and many of the paintings are now lost. The publication of this material is an unprecedented achievement, and Bardon can now be seen as the catalyst he was for a powerfully modern expression of an ancient indigenous way of seeing the world.
Among other things, the late Geoffrey Robert Bardon AM was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1998 for service to the preservation and development of traditional Aboriginal art forms, and made three documentary films and had two previous publications. After his death in 2003, his older brother James helped realise this, Geoffrey's last book.
Contents page is shown in photo 3.
528 pages. Published by The Miegunyah Press in 2007. ISBN 978-0-52285-434-3. [Approx 30 x 24.5 x 4cms & 2720g].
This large, informative and well illustrated book is in very good condition with pages clean, tightly bound and the beginnings of creasing of the spine [it is quite thick]. Covers show minor signs of use/storage as per photos 1 & 2 with minor rubbing wear to parts of the very bottom edges front and back, and the spine has faded slightly from life in a bookcase. There is a very liitle bit of colour rub on the first couple of pages, and there is a very small mark between the inside of the back cover and the blank page opposite [could be stray ink]. And there are a couple of marks to the top edge of the closed pages. That sticker on the front indicates that this won the 2005 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards.
Also have some other art related books listed separately at present including 'Aboriginal Art' by Wally Caruana.
Please note:-
- Inspections welcome.
- Best to phone [three&two zero&nine seven&one eight&two] if you are keen to collect. I don't use a mobile and often only get to check messages late in the evening, so please check your email for replies [they sometimes end up in your Spam folder].
- No Paypal [sorry]
- Date Listed:17/04/2024
- Last Edited:17/04/2024
- Condition:Used
- Shipping:Shipping & Pickup
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