Colour Power: Aboriginal Art Post 1984

by Judith Ryan

Colour Power focuses mainly on the revolutionary decades 1984–2004, which issue from the genesis of the Western Desert art movement at Papunya in 1971–72, when senior men invented a new art form, which has had a 'big bang' effect on the evolution and acceptance of modern Indigenous art within the mainstream. In experimenting with acrylics the founding Papunya artists opened up a Pandora's once the bright colours had been let out there would be no turning back.

160 pages, Paperback

First published July 25, 2006