Mapping modernisms : art, indigeneity, colonialism / Elizabeth Harney and Ruth B. Phillips, editors.

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 f...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Objects/histories.
Other Authors: Harney, Elizabeth (Editor)
Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss), 1945- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:Objects/histories.
Subjects:
Indigenous art.
Modernism (Art)
Physical Description:432 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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.