Gordon H. Brown Lecture 17: Conal McCarthy, 'William Page Rose & Āpirana Ngata: Experiments in Māori arts and crafts 1920-40' | 2019

Published 2019  by Tāhuhu Kōrero Toi Art History, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
48 pages
210 x 170mm, softcover, with 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 20th 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.

Prof. Conal McCarthy works in Museum and Heritage Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.