Abstract
The multiple aboriginal artistic movements which developed in Australia throughout the twentieth century have opened up an area of cultural negotiation with a highly political impact. Whether paintings on bark from Arnhem Land or acrylics on canvas, these works accompanied the Land Rights movement at the origin of the first land restitutions in the seventies. The article presents the history of this movement and examines the ritual origin of these contemporary works in more detail : the purlapa paintings on sand expressing the existential relationship between an individual and a place. In post-colonial Australia, the expression of this link to the land represents an act of resistance.
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