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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harney, Elizabeth, editor.

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

Series:

Objects/histories.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous art.

Modernism (Art).

Ethnic art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 432 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Art, indigeneity, colonialism

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Mapping modernisms.

ISBN:

9780822372615

0822372614

OCLC:

1198930084