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- Country/Region of Manufacture
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- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
ISBN-10
1934260061
ISBN-13
9781934260067
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71678571
Product Key Features
Book Title
Icons of the Desert : Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya
Number of Pages
150 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Australian & Oceanian, Folk & Outsider Art, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Book Series
Distributed for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
0.1 Oz
Item Length
11 in
Item Width
11 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-943908
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"The exciting and harrowing story of the Western Desert art movement unfolds in Icons of the Desert. . . . The cultural complexity is not lost-indeed, it is finely narrated through the paintings on view. . . . The catalog is definitive, if only for the reason that curator Roger Benjamin enlisted essays from specialists, especially that of anthropologist Fred Myers, who did his fieldwork in Papunya in the 1970s and has written two books on the Western Desert people."-Marjorie Welish, New York Observer, 14 September 2009, "This catalog and the exhibit it accompanies constitute a hinge event in the brief, vivid history of the desert art movement and its journey from the reddish plains of Papunya into the world. Indeed, nothing will be quite the same again in our understanding of this art. . . . It has all the paradigm-changing potential, if on a smaller stage, of the celebrated 1939 New York retrospective of Picasso's early work. . . . Benjamin contributes a detailed curatorial essay combining an aerial view of the literature on the early boards with a set of thrilling stabs of his own. The effect of this bravura piece of criticism is to liberate the viewer from the perspectives of anthropology and to encourage a new mode of looking at Papunya work. He gives due weight to the established pathways in desert art, citing the notes on individual paintings prepared by early art co-ordinators and listing the story-cycle summaries, songlines and dreaming diagrams collected from the artists. But Benjamin's eyes and mind have lingered with Matisse and Cezanne; he is an active interpreter and fulfils his brief to treat the paintings as art. Above all, he is interested in finding out how they work on us, with the idea that knowing something of this increases our appreciation of the effect."-Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian, "This catalog and the exhibit it accompanies constitute a hinge event in the brief, vivid history of the desert art movement and its journey from the reddish plains of Papunya into the world. Indeed, nothing will be quite the same again in our understanding of this art. . . . It has all the paradigm-changing potential, if on a smaller stage, of the celebrated 1939 New York retrospective of Picasso's early work. . . . Benjamin contributes a detailed curatorial essay combining an aerial view of the literature on the early boards with a set of thrilling stabs of his own. The effect of this bravura piece of criticism is to liberate the viewer from the perspectives of anthropology and to encourage a new mode of looking at Papunya work. He gives due weight to the established pathways in desert art, citing the notes on individual paintings prepared by early art co-ordinators and listing the story-cycle summaries, songlines and dreaming diagrams collected from the artists. But Benjamin's eyes and mind have lingered with Matisse and Cezanne; he is an active interpreter and fulfils his brief to treat the paintings as art. Above all, he is interested in finding out how they work on us, with the idea that knowing something of this increases our appreciation of the effect."--Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian, "The exciting and harrowing story of the Western Desert art movement unfolds in Icons of the Desert. . . . The cultural complexity is not lost--indeed, it is finely narrated through the paintings on view. . . . The catalog is definitive, if only for the reason that curator Roger Benjamin enlisted essays from specialists, especially that of anthropologist Fred Myers, who did his fieldwork in Papunya in the 1970s and has written two books on the Western Desert people."--Marjorie Welish, New York Observer, 14 September 2009
Dewey Decimal
759.9940899915
Synopsis
Icons of the Desert is an exhibition catalog produced by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University for a show featuring forty-nine "dot-paintings" produced by Aboriginal artists from the settlement of Panpunya. Dot-painting has become an art instantly associated with Aboriginal Australia. In the more than thirty-five years since the advent of this movement, Papunya works have been widely exhibited and acquired by private collectors and museums in Australia, and increasingly abroad. Icons of the Desert is the first book to focus on the founding expressions of Papunya art. It examines their origins in the paintings produced in Papunya in the Western Desert during the years 1971 to 1973, after the Sydney schoolteacher Geoffrey Bardon provided Aboriginal men with art materials and encouraged them to paint on Masonite, against the wishes of Australian government officials. These paintings claim a unique status. Only around six hundred were made. They are also the first painted works to transfer the designs of desert ceremonial imagery to a permanent surface. Beyond this rarity and historical significance, however, the visual qualities of Papunya boards make them a uniquely appealing body of work. They have the freshness of trial and error, of experiment by artists who were seasoned in other media adjusting to an unfamiliar format. Illustrated with full-color plates of the forty-nine exhibited works by such great artists as Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, and Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, Icons of the Desert features numerous color figures of comparative works and documentary photographs of the original artists at work, some never before published, and a chronological catalog documenting the works' history and iconography, edited by project curator Roger Benjamin. The leading Indigenous curator in the field, Hetti Perkins, contributed the preface. Roger Benjamin authored the lead essay, which situates the works in their historical and cultural context. Fred Myers, an internationally renowned cultural anthropologist who undertook his doctoral research at Papunya when the movement was still in formation, has written an essay on the stylistic development of one of the painting men he knew personally, Shorty Lungkarta Tjungurrayi. Vivien Johnson, the most prominent Australian author on Western and Central Desert art, writes on a second important artist in the collection, Charlie Tarawa Tjungurrayi. In addition, the memories of relatives of deceased painters in the exhibition are presented in the form of an interview conducted by Dick Kimber, who was a schoolteacher at Papunya in 1971 when the paintings were first produced., Icons of the Desert is an exhibition catalog produced by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University for a show featuring forty-nine "dot-paintings" produced by Aboriginal artists from the settlement of Panpunya. Dot-painting has become...
LC Classification Number
ND1103.P37I36 2009
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