Before Time Today
Subtitle: Reinventing Tradition in Aurukun Aboriginal Art
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780702238581
Subjects: Art; Australian indigenous studies
Description: Explains how Aurukun art production absorbed the colonial impact of mission and government cultural intervention throughout the 20th century, shifting through demands for cultural display to outsiders and arts and crafts initiatives, and then providing the powerful visual symbols for the political struggles of Aurukun's Wik people to regain land ownership and social justice.