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Carty, John: Balgo: Creating Country, UWA Publishing, Crawley 2021, ISBN 9781760802042

Table of Contents        ¦         Cover Text        ¦         Review⁄Abstract

Table of Contents

Preface -ix-

Introduction -1-

Becoming Balgo -45-

Christianity and culture: the end of the mission and the birth of Balgo art (1970s) -77-

Becoming art: Balgo before the market (1981-82) -93-

Painting towards a public: the Adult Education Centre years (1982-1986) -147-

Art from the Great Sandy Desert -161-

Becoming Aboriginal art: painting for the market -181-

Mattew Gill: the shadow of Balgo art -213-

Western Desert abstraction -229-

Individual abstractions -271-

The work of art -295-

The social life of style -313-

Creating Country -343-

Conclusion: painting Balgo -363-

Bibliography -369-

Notes -375-

Graphs and tables -375-

Acknowledgements -387-

Cover Text

"Balgo is Country for all of us. We were all born here. These generations here today. We are Wirrimanu kids. We belong to Balgo. That's what we paint. That's way we paint. This is our story."