Vivien Johnson Vivien Johnson i(A115117 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 2 y separately published work icon Streets of Papunya : The Re-invention of Papunya Painting Vivien Johnson , 2015 Sydney : NewSouth Publishing , 2015 9012737 2015 single work art work

'Some of Australia's most exciting contemporary art comes from the daughters of the ground-breaking Papunya Tula artists of the 1970s, the founding fathers of the desert art movement. Streets of Papunya is the story of the women painters of Papunya today, rising stars of a new art centre called Papunya Tjupi Arts. Among them are some of the first women in the desert to join the original Papunya art movement, who continue Papunya's rich history as the birthplace of contemporary Indigenous art. Western Desert art expert Vivien Johnson reveals the whole history of Papunya as a site of art production, from Albert Namatjira's final paintings, executed in Papunya days before his death in 1959, through Papunya's glory days of the 1970s and '80s, the dark time when it was known as 'carpetbagging capital of the desert' to its inspirational renaissance, as its leading painters reinvent Papunya painting for the twenty-first century. ' (Source: TROVE)
1 1 y separately published work icon Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists Vivien Johnson , Alice Springs : IAD Press , 2008 Z1550770 2008 single work bibliography Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists 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.

In the early 1970s, a small group of Western Desert 'painting men' at Papunya in Central Australia seized the opportunity to experiment with new techniques and materials, producing vibrant and innovative works that give enduring expression to their powerful tjukurrpa (Dreamings). In the years since, Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd has made a profound contribution to the Western Desert art movement and international contemporary art. (Publisher's Notes)
1 y separately published work icon Clifford Possum Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Vivien Johnson , Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia , 2003 Z1493305 2003 single work biography This is the biography of Clifford Possum and his artistic career.This exhibition book accompanied the artist's first comprehensive retrospective, Clifford was the only Papunya Tula artist to be honoured by such an exhibition at a major institutions. The Adelaide and the Art Gallery of South Australia staged the exhibition and published this most elaborate book produced on an Australian Indigenous artist.
1 2 y separately published work icon The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Vivien Johnson , Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri , East Roseville : Gordon and Breach Arts International , 1994 Z1813407 1994 single work biography

'This is an account of an Aboriginal artist. Over 70 major paintings, all with detailed annotations and spanning more than two decades, are reproduced in this volume. The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaitjarri makes accessible the development of a master painter of the Anmatyerre tribe - one of the founders and leaders of Western Desert art. In the contemporary medium of acrylic on canvas, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri expresses both his custodianship of the ancient Dreaming stories of Aboriginal Central Australia recounted in his paintings, and his own artistic vision.'

Source: http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books (Sighted: 13/10/2011)
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