Mapping modernisms : art, indigeneity, colonialism /

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Imprint:Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Description:432 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Objects/histories: critical perspectives on art, material culture, and representation
Objects/histories.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11753322
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Other authors / contributors:Harney, Elizabeth, editor.
Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss), 1945- editor.
ISBN:9780822368595
0822368595
9780822368717
0822368714
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Other form:Online version: Mapping modernisms. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 9780822372615
Table of 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.