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Canvassing identities: reflecting on the acrylic movement in an Australian Aboriginal settlement

Author(s) -

Françoise Dussart

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

aboriginal history journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1837-9389

pISSN - 0314-8769

DOI - 10.22459/ah.30.2011.12

Subject(s) - settlement (finance) , project commissioning , publishing , desert (philosophy) , identity (music) , movement (music) , sociology , media studies , archaeology , history , social science , aesthetics , political science , law , art , payment , world wide web , computer science

Two decades of Warlpiri acrylic art production in the Central Desert settlement of Yuendumu, which has provided an arena in which ever-changing and often contrary motivations and priorities have found expression between 1984 and 2004, are analysed. It is argued that a closer understanding of the changing nature of social identity is obtained by tracking the significance of practice.

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