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Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists

by Vivien Johnson

Aboriginal Australian PaintingBiographyAustralian ArtsAboriginal artistsAboriginal AustraliansKinshipSocial life and customsPapunya Tula Artists' Company

"This book chronicles the beginnings of the Western Desert art movement and the phenomenal development of its founding art company over four decades. Through comprehensive and widely researched biographies of more than 200 men and women the book illuminates lives balanced between first contact and international stardom, poverty and record auction prices."--Jacket.

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