Papunya – Aboriginal Paintings From The Central Australian Desert

Pre-owned. Excerpt from the foreword: I still find it difficult to express the excitement I felt after driving half the day in a bumping. lurching, dusty truck, to arrive at the end of the earth; the Government Aboriginal settlement, a litter of broken-windowed houses, the imposition of a Canberra bureaucratic suburban mind.
The Aborigines have. quite sensibly, moved out and made camp in their time-honoured tradition, out in the open. From under a few sheets of iron, one man called ‘Dinny nolan Jambijamba’ pulled a five foot square piece of canvas covered with magic, a world not of the empty cans, broken windows and rusty old cars. Book contains an invitation from the Australian High Commission to the opening of the “Papunya” Art Exhibition dated 12th March 1984, together with a newspaper clipping dated October 2004 about a book detailing life in Australia from different racial perspectives. Book is in very good condition. Softcover. Published by the Aboriginal Artists Agency 1983