Contents: Foreword, Hetti Perkins; Foreword, Robert Edwards; Acknowledgements; Explanatory notes; Preface, James Bardon; Introduction: the interpretation of the dreams, Paul Carter; Introduction: a way into the continent, Geoffrey Bardon; Personal Beginnings: 'The beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement' - The children come first, February-June 1971; The men and the murals, June-August 1971; The men's story, April-December 1971; The great painting room: like warriors of old, February-July 1972; The making of Papunya Tula, September 1971-July 1972; 'The structure and meaning of the paintings' - Meaning, approach and archetypes; Hieroglyphs; 'Subject matter and meaning and the importance of the idea of story' - Water dreamings; Travelling dreamings; Fire, spirit, myth and medicine dreamings; Bush tucker stories; Women's dreamings; Ritual dance dreamings; My country (homeland) dreamings; The children's stories; 'The lives of the painters'; 'Afterword: At Papunya, 1990-1991'; Selected Catalogue: Archetypes and hieroglyphs; The school and the school murals; Water dreamings; Travelling dreamings; Fire, spirit, myth and medicine dreamings; Bush tucker stories; Women's dreamings; Ritual dance dreamings; My country (homeland) dreamings; The children's stories; Epilogue: encounters with Geoff Bardon, Jennifer Isaacs; Valedictory: Remembering Geoffrey Bardon, Judith Ryan; Glossary; Bibliography; Index of paintings; Index of artists; General index.
Geoffrey Bardon studied law and art education. In 1971, he took up a posting to Papunya in the Northern Territory, Australia. He worked closely with the Aboriginal painters who became the founders of the Papunya Tula painting movement during 1971 to 1973. He died in 2003. His brother James helped realise this, Geoffrey's last book and has been associated, alongside his brother, with Western Desert art for many years.
'This book is a kind of bible of Aboriginal art. It is grandiose in scale, defining in its pictorial record and rich in narrative momentum' - The Sydney Morning Herald
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