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- Title
Port Keats painting: Revolution and continuity.
- Authors
Ward, Graeme K.; Crocombe, Mark
- Abstract
The role of the poet and collector of 'mythologies', Roland Robinson, in prompting the production of commercial bark-painting at Port Keats (Wadeye), appears to have been accepted uncritically -- though not usually acknowledged -- by collectors and curators. Here we attempt to trace the history of painting in the Daly--Fitzmaurice region to contextualise Robinson's contribution, and to evaluate it from both the perspective of available literature and of accounts of contemporary painters and Traditional Owners in the Port Keats area. It is possible that the intervention that Robinson might have considered revolutionary was more likely a continuation of previously well-established cultural practice, the commercial development of which was both an Indigenous 'adjustment' to changing socio-cultural circumstances, and a quiet statement of maintenance of identity by strong individuals adapting and attempting to continue their cultural traditions.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; BARK painting (Aboriginal Australian art); ROBINSON, Roland; CULTURE; PAINTING
- Publication
Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2008, Vol 2008, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
0729-4352
- Publication type
Article