Mapping modernisms : art, indigeneity, colonialism

Book 2018

Mapping Modernisms' brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products, the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas of Primitivism through visual forms and philosophical ideas. Although often overlooked in the literature on global modernisms, artists, artworks, and art patrons moved within and ac...

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Art ethnique

Indigenous art

Indigenous art British Columbia

Modernism (Art)

Modernisme (Art)

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Objects/histories Objects/histories: critical perspectives on art, material culture, and representation

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ISBN:

9780822368717

Description:

xviii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Reinventing Zulu tradition: the modernism of Zizwezenyanga Qwabe's figurative relief panels / Sandra Klopper
"Hooked forever on primitive peoples": James Houston and the transformation of "Eskimo handicrafts" to Inuit art / Heather Igloliorte
Making pictures on baskets: modern Indian painting in an expanded field / Bill Anthes
An intersection: Bill Reid, Henry Speck, and the mapping of modern Northwest Coast art / Karen Duffek
Modernism on display: negotiating value in exhibitions of Māori art, 1958-1973 / Damian Skinner
"Artist of PNG?" : Mathias Kauage and Melanesian modernism / Nicholas Thomas
Modernism and the art of Albert Namatjira / Ian McLean
Cape Dorset cosmopolitans: making "local" prints in global modernity / Norman Vorano
Natural synthesis: art, theory, and the politics of decolonization in mid-twentieth-century Nigeria / Chika Okeke-Agulu
Being modern, becoming native: George Morrison's surrealist journey home / W. Jackson Rushing III
Falling into the world: the global art world of Aloï Pilioko and Nicolaï Michoutouchkine / Peter Brunt
Constellations and coordinates: repositioning postwar Paris in stories of African modernisms / Elizabeth Harney
Conditions of engagement: mobility, modernism, and modernity in the art of Jackson Hlungwani and Sydney Kumalo / Anitra Nettleton
The modernist lens of Lutterodt Studios / Erin Haney

LCCN:

2018013376

Control Number:

2871676

Other Authors:

Harney, Elizabeth, editor
Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss), 1945- editor

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