Art Mania
Geoffrey Bardon and the Painting Men of Papunya
$42.74
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2026
Summary
Art Mania: Geoffrey Bardon and the Painting Men of Papunya is the first biography of the young teacher who, through his involvement with the painting men in the Western Desert in 1971–72, was for a long time said to have set in motion the Aboriginal art movement. Geoffrey Bardon effectively invented the origin story of Aboriginal painting – the pivotal moment in Australian art history – with himself as chronicler, hero and martyr. He did it partly to manage his own disintegrating sen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923106888 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1923106880 |
| Author: | Kitty Hauser |
| Publisher: | Giramondo Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Giramondo Publishing Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 600g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 149mm x 209mm |
Kitty Hauser
Kitty Hauser is a writer and historian based in Sydney. Her books include Shadow Sites; Bloody Old Britain: O.G.S. Crawford and the Archaeology of Modern Life; and This Is Bacon, about the painter Francis Bacon. Her writing has been published in the London Review of Books, ArtForum, New Left Review, The Australian, and Granta.
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