Published 2019 by Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
48 pages
210mm x 170mm, softcover, colour illustrations
Edited by Geoffrey Batchen
ISSN: 977-1176-58800-5

What are the lessons from Māori experiments in the visual and performing arts in the early 20^th century? This lecture analysed a series of remarkable episodes when a wide range of cultural practices were mobilised by the Young Māori Party to advance claims for social and political development. It considered how, after the ‘ontological turn’, non-Western ways of being, knowing and doing may enrich the study, not just of global art history, but of visual and material culture more generally.