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- Title
Buffalo Boy testifies: decolonising visual testimony in a colonial-settler society.
- Authors
Bell, Lynne
- Abstract
The article discusses visual testimony decolonization in a colonist society in Canada. It offers analyses on two visual projects of artist Adrian Stimson entitled "Old Sun" and "Buffalo Boy's Confessional: Indulgence". The author mentions that both projects expose and form colonialism history in the country which is the long and bare story of the residential school system. She argues that Stimson's testimony on the system attain historical and contextual agency within the meaning framework.
- Subjects
CANADA; ART; WITNESSES; DECOLONIZATION; BOARDING schools; STIMSON, Adrian
- Publication
Humanities Research, 2009, Vol 15, Issue 3, p81
- ISSN
1440-0669
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22459/HR.XV.12.2009.06