[Linganth] Fred Myers and Terry Smith on their new book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Jennifer Biddle asks Fred R. Myers and Terry Smith questions about *Six
Paintings from Papunya: a conversation, *their new book.

campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: In the early 1970s at Papunya, a remote settlement in the
Central Australian desert, a group of Indigenous artists decided to
communicate the sacred power of their traditional knowledge to the wider
worlds beyond their own. Their exceptional, innovative efforts led to an
outburst of creative energy across the continent that gave rise to the
contemporary Aboriginal art movement that continues to this day. In their
new book, anthropologist Fred Myers and art critic Terry Smith discuss six
Papunya paintings featured in a 2022 exhibition in New York. They draw on
several discourses that have developed around First Nations art—notably
anthropology, art history, and curating as practiced by Indigenous and
non-Indigenous interpreters. Their focus on six key paintings enables
unusually close and intense insight into the works’ content and
extraordinary innovation. *Six Paintings from Papunya* also includes a
reflection by Indigenous curator and scholar Stephen Gilchrist, who
considers the nature and significance of this rare transcultural
conversation.
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