Papunya: A Place Made After the Story, Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, The Miegunyah Press, 2004, is the definitive first hand academic account of the 1971 Papunya origin of the Western Desert dot-painting movement, by the art teacher whose name is synonymous with its beginning, including his direct account of the technique's function in concealing ceremonially restricted content beneath its visible surface. Its strength is first person authority from presence at the movement's actual founding, which no later account can match. Its limit is that it is one participant's account, however central; readers wanting the movement's reception and later development should pair it with subsequent art historical scholarship.
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Papunya: A Place Made After the Story, Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, published by The Miegunyah Press in 2004, the top tier reflecting first person authority from the art teacher whose name is synonymous with the movement's 1971 founding, which no later account can match, notwithstanding that it is one participant's account, so readers wanting the movement's reception and later development should pair it with subsequent art historical scholarship. NotesThe definitive first-hand academic account, by the art teacher whose name is synonymous with the movement, of the 1971 Papunya origin of the Western Desert dot-painting style, including the technique's concealment function for ceremonially restricted content. Squarely the fact's own subject.
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AuthorGeoffrey Bardon and James Bardon
PublisherThe Miegunyah Press (Melbourne University Publishing)
Publication Year2004
URLhttps://www.mup.com.au/books/papunya/9780522873900
Source Typeacademic monograph
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