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Johnson, Vivien: Streets of Papunya. The re-invention of Papunya painting, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney 2015, ISBN 9781742232430

Table of Contents        ¦         Cover Text        ¦         Review⁄Abstract

Table of Contents

Introduction -9-

1. Namatjira Dreaming at Papunya -26-

2. Hermannsburg connections -40-

3. Beyond the Bardon years -59-

4. Who do you think you are? -83-

5. A decade of artistic ferment -108-

6. What happened to Papunya painting? -142-

7. Papunya Tjupi: How to start an art centre -158-

8. The re-invention of Papunya painting -179-

Conclusion -220-

Papunya family tree -224-

Notes -228-

Acknowledgments -232-

Index -233-

Cover Text

In "Streets of Papunya", Western Desert art expert Vivien Johnson reveals the remarkable art of the women painters of Papunya today, the rising stars of the town’s new Tjupi art centre. Some of the first women to join the original Papunya art movement, many of these artists are the daughters of the revolutionary Papunya Tula artists of the 1970s. Johnson unearths the whole history of Papunya as a site of art production: Albert Namatjira’s final paintings, executed in Papunya days before his death in 1959; Papunya’s glory days of the 1970s and ‘80s; ist dark time as the ‘carpetbagging capital of the desert‘; and ist inspirational resurgence as ist leading painters reinvent Papunya painting for the twenty-first century