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References cited:


Details of dust wrapper - Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert

Bardon 1979

Bardon, Geoff. ABORIGINAL ART OF THE WESTERN DESERT. Artists of the Papunya settlement in the Northern

Territory of Australia. BNo.: 0-7270-0811-0 First Edition, 1979 Pp: 71; 260mm x 200mm; 0.51kg. 24 col, 20 b/w, 24 fig,

Preface, introduction. A good copy in dust wrapper. Rigby Limited, Adelaide, 1979. (Insights are given into

Aborigines and their legends and twenty-four of the best paintings by twenty Aboriginal artists are also illustrated.)

(Keywords: Papunya, Tjingari, Tjampatjimpa, Pintupi, Tjaparula, Loritja, Tjakamara, Tjapangati, Tjapaltjari, Anmatjira

Aranda.).

 

Bardon 1991

Bardon, Geoffrey. PAPUNYA TULA. Art of the Western Desert. BNo.: 0-86914-160-0. First Edition, 1979 Pp: xx, 140;

280mm x 210mm; 0.68kg. 64 col, 33 b/w, 50 fig. Foreword, introduction, bibliography. A very good copy in dust

wrapper. Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, 1991. (The book outlines the development of the painting

movement at Papunya in the Western Desert of northern Australia. Twenty of the Papunya painters are represented

and tell the stories of their work.) (Keywords: Tjampitjinpa, Tjupurrula, Tjapangati, Tjapaltjarri, Tjungurrayi,

Tjakamarra, Anmatjira, Aranda, Pintupi, Loritja.).

 

Beier 1985

Beier, Ulli. DREAM TIME - MACHINE TIME. The Art of Trevor Nickolls. BNo.: 0-949267-13-9. First Edition, 1985

(pb). Pp: 93; 215mm x 215mm; 0.32kg. 38 col, 17 b/w. Introduction, curriculum vitae. A very good paperback copy with

illustrated wrap. Aboriginal Artists Agency, Robert Brown & Associates, Bathurst, NSW, 1985. (The author outlines

the artist's earlier life in Port Adelaide, his teaching career in Port Pirie and Melbourne, his meeting with Dinny Nolan

in 1979 and his adoption of the Papunya dotting technique into his paintings. The major theme of Trevor Nickolls'

work is the conflict between Machine Time and Dream Time. For the artist the resolution of this conflict involves the

search for his Aboriginal roots which helps him to a new understanding of the Australian landscape. His work is

presented in this book in thirty colour plates) (Self Portrait, Adelaide 1973, Northern Landscape, Sydney 1985, Dollar

Dreaming, Melbourne 1984).

 

Berndt 1988

Berndt, Ronald M. & Catherine H. Berndt with John E. Stanton. ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN ART. A Visual

Perspective. BNo.: 1-86330-161-5 Reprinted Edition, 1992 (1982)(pb). Pp: 176; 270mm x210mm; 0.70kg. 158 col, 3 maps.

List of plates, preface, bibliography, name index, subject index. A very good paperback copy. Octopus Publishing

Group, Port Melbourne, 1992. (An authoritative consideration of the place of Aboriginal art within its own traditional

settings. The underlying theme is the resilience of the art set against a changing environment) (Keywords: Arnhem

Land, Yirrkala, Milingimbi, Balgo, Ooldea, Aurukun, Bathurst Island).

 

Berndt et al 1964

Berndt, Ronald M. (editor). AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART. Introduced by: Berndt, Elkin, McCarthy, Mountford,

Strehlow, Tuckson. BNo.: n/a. First Australian Edition, 1964. Pp: xiii, 118; 275mm x 215mm; 1.17kg. 73 col (pl), 9 fig, 2

maps. Publisher's note, preface, epilogue, source, annotations, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust

wrapper. Ure Smith Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1964. (The work of six authors, the book illustrates the variety of Aboriginal art

forms: bark paintings, rock engravings and paintings, carved figures, and sacred and secular objects.) (Keywords:

Wandjina, Kimberley, Jundurana, Arawaldja, Groote Eylandt, Yerobeni, Oenpelli, Yirrkala, Wunungu, Milingimbi,

rangga.).

 

Detail of front cover of ART FROM THE GREAT SANDY DESERT

Berndt & Stanton 1987

Berndt, R.M. & J.E. Stanton (text). ART FROM THE GREAT SANDY DESERT. The Art Gallery of Western Australia,

Curator: Michael A. O'Ferrall. BNo.: 0-7309-0519-5. First Edition, 1986 (pb). Pp: 8; 300mm x 210mm; 0.05kg. 2 col, 4 b/w.

Introduction, notes, references, acknowledgments. A good paperback copy (pamphlet). Art Gallery of Western

Australia, Perth, 1986. (This publication is a catalogue for an exhibition of Aboriginal art by artists from Balgo Hills

held in the Art Gallery of Western Australia in November 1986-January 1987) (Keywords: Indigenous art,

contemporary, Australia, Aboriginal, Balgo Hills).



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