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No stone without a name
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Author/contributor
- Warne, Kennedy (Author)
Title
No stone without a name
Abstract
“Aboriginal people, if they appear at all in the landscape, are presented as ornamental figures, framing devices, exotic touches. Only rarely is their humanity expressed . . . Mostly they are simply absent.” — Kennedy Warne on the erasure of Aboriginal people in colonial art.
Publication
E-Tangata
Date
2023-08-05
Language
English
Accessed
28/08/2023, 01:29
Rights
Indigenous Matters
Extra
New Zealand
Notes
A new book, No Stone Without a Name, finds in colonial artwork a visual history of possession and dispossession in Western Australia, as Kennedy Warne discovers.
"colonial archives are not an irredeemable artefact of cultural erasure, but an opportunity to question long-accepted narratives and to allow an alternative story to unfold. “Colonial archives both disguise and reveal the persistent and continuous presence of the colonised people in their land. We are now in need of a picture of the land before colonisation, before so much was changed, before environmental devastation and before the destruction of the evidence of the past.”
Citation
Warne, K. (2023, August 5). No stone without a name. E-Tangata. https://e-tangata.co.nz/arts/no-stone-without-a-name/
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