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Possessions: Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization

Possessions: Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization

Thomas, Nicholas

Hardcover

Indigenous Art of the Americas

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ISBN10: 0500296596
ISBN13: 9780500296592
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: Sep 27 2022
Pages: 368
Weight: 2.46
Height: 1.24 Width: 6.35 Depth: 9.37
Language: English

The arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native America famously inspired twentieth-century modernist artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Max Ernst. Was this a cross-cultural discovery to be celebrated? Or just one more example of Western colonial appropriation?

What might a decolonized art history look like? Over the last half-century, scholarship emerged that gave the arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native America dedicated attention--though often in terms associated with tribal art connoisseurship, without acknowledgment of the colonial contexts of Indigenous art traditions or histories of appropriation and violence, and often stopped short of engaging with Indigenous visions or voices. Decolonization refers to an event, a liberation. In one sense, decolonization has happened: it was the moment of national independence for formerly colonized nations across Africa, Asia, and Oceania. But from another perspective, more prominent in current debate, decolonization is ongoing. What work does art do now, toward decolonization? And how can we, the audience, be active agents in redefining these histories?

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