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Icons of the desert : early Aboriginal paintings from Papunya
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Icons of the desert : early Aboriginal paintings from Papunya

by Roger Benjamin

This exhibition catalogue examines the origins of the Papunya dot-painting movement in the Australian Western Desert between 1971 and 1973. It features forty-nine early Aboriginal paintings alongside essays analysing their cultural and historical significance.

Accession 36583 ISBN 9781934260067 Publisher Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
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