First Citizen: Albert Namatjira

Release Year
1989
Runtime
54m
Directed By
John Tristram
First Citizen: Albert Namatjira

FIRST CITIZEN: ALBERT NAMATJIRA explores the great talent which enabled the Aranda Aboriginal to become the first to adopt the painting techniques and modes of expression of culture which were in direct contrast to his own. Namatjira's life is an expression of Australia's faltering response and awareness of Aboriginal culture and the diametrically opposed Western values of art, law and morality.

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