Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past and Present Together): Fifty Years of Papunya Tula Artists

by Henry F. Skerritt

In 1971 a small group of Aboriginal artists from Australia's remote Central and Western Deserts changed the face of global art history. The township of Papunya was founded in 1959 as a settlement for Aboriginal people who were relocated from their homelands. Living in cramped conditions, the community brought together people of diverse backgrounds and languages. Painting offered a way of asserting authority: of explaining who the townspeople were...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1735326925
• ISBN13: 9781735326924
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Uva - Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collecti
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.3" x 11.7"