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Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri

by Vivien Johnson, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri

This retrospective publication examines the career of a pioneer Western Desert dot painter and his leadership within the Papunya Tula Artists. It explores how desert art functions as cultural renewal and a means of preserving central Australian Indigenous knowledge.

Accession 36705 ISBN 0730830535 Publisher Art Gallery of South Australia
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