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Desert country

by Nici Cumpston, Barry Patton

This volume presents Aboriginal art from the Art Gallery of South Australia, featuring Western Desert paintings from 1971 to the present, alongside recent artistic developments in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankyuntjatjara Lands.

Accession 3902 ISBN 9781921668043 Publisher Art Gallery of South Australia
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