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Mapping modernisms : art, indigeneity, colonialism
Title
Mapping modernisms : art, indigeneity, colonialism / Elizabeth Harney and Ruth B. Phillips, editors.
ISBN
0822372614
9780822372615
0822368595
0822368714
9780822368595
9780822368717
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 432 pages) : illustrations.
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Summary
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 across national and imperial borders, carrying, appropriating, or translating objects, images, and ideas. These itineraries made up the dense networks of modern life, contributing to the crafting of modern subjectivities and of local, transnationally-inflected modernisms. Addressing the silence on indigeneity in established narratives of modernism, the contributors decenter art history's traditional Western orientation and prompt a re-evaluation of canonical understandings of twentieth-century art history. 'Mapping Modernisms' is the first book in Modernist Exchanges, a multivolume project dedicated to rewriting the history of modernism and modernist art to include artists, theorists, art forms, and movements from around the world.
Variant and related titles
e-Duke books scholarly collection 2018.
Other formats
Print version: Mapping modernisms. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 13, 2019
Series
Objects/histories: critical perspectives on art, material culture, and representation
Bibliography
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.
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