Aboriginal art : creativity and assimilation

Donna Leslie
Melbourne, Vic : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2008

ISBN: 9781921394003

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Book description
This book explores Aboriginal art in relation to the effects of the policy of assimilation which prevailed in Australia from the 1930s to the 1970s. It is a rigorous and sustained argument, supported by an array of important visual images which reveals an extensive grasp of issues relating not only to the practice and history of art, but also in the fields of anthropology, ethnology and sociology. It is a rare presentation of aspects of the history of Aboriginal art from an Aboriginal perspective, and provides fresh ways of understanding Aboriginal experience.

About the author
Donna Leslie is a painter belonging to the Gamilaroi people of northern New South Wales. She is an ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Art and Design at Monash University.

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