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- Title
Canvassing identities: reflecting on the acrylic art movement in an Australian Aboriginal settlement.
- Authors
Dussart, Françoise
- Abstract
The article examines two decades of Warlpiri acrylic art production in the Central Desert settlement of Yuendumu, Northern Territory. An analysis of painters' motivations to paint Dreaming stories for sale shows how the production of acrylics provided a site where identity politics are negotiated among generations, between genders, and among painters, art- coordinators and the Australian society at large. It is noted that painting canvases with Dreaming stories has played an important role in the construction of Warlpiri identities since the early 1980s.
- Subjects
NORTHERN Territory; AUSTRALIA; ART &; society -- History; ACRYLIC painting; PAINTING exhibitions; PAINTERS; WARLPIRI (Australian people)
- Publication
Aboriginal History, 2006, Vol 30, p156
- ISSN
0314-8769
- Publication type
Article