Beschreibung:
Elizabeth Harney is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Toronto and author of In Senghor's Shadow: Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960-1995, also published by Duke University Press, and Ethiopian Passages: Contemporary Art from the Diaspora. Ruth B. Phillips is Professor of Art History at Carleton University and author of several books, including Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums and Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900.
List of Illustrations ix General Editors' Foreword / Ruth B. Phillips and Nicholas Thomas xiii Preface / Elizabeth Harney and Ruth B. Phillips xv Introduction. Inside Modernity: Indigeneity, Coloniality, Modernisms / Elizabeth Harney and Ruth B. Phillips 1 Part I. Modern Values 1. Reinventing Zulu Tradition: The Modernism of Zizwezenyanga Qwabe's Figurative Relief Panels / Sandra Klopper 33 2. "Hooked Forever on Primitive Peoples": James Houston and the Transformation of "Eskimo Handicrafts" to Inuit Art / Heather Igloliorte 62 3. Making Pictures on Baskets: Modern Indian Painting in an Expanded Field / Bill Anthes 91 4. An Intersection: Bill Reid, Henry Speck, and the Mapping of Modern Northwest Coast Art / Karen Duffek 110 5. Modernism on Display: Negotiating Value in Exhibitions of M¿ori Art, 1958–1973 / Damian Skinner 138 Part II. Modern Identities 6. "Artist of PNG": Mathias Kauage and Melanesian Modernism / Nicholas Thomas 163 7. Modernism and the Art of Albert Namatjira / Ian McLean 187 8. Cape Dorset Cosmopolitans: Making "Local" Prints in Global Modernity / Norman Vorano 209 9. Natural Synthesis: Art, Theory, and the Politics of Decolonization in Mid-Twentieth-Century Nigeria / Chika Okeke-Agulu 235 Part III. Modern Mobilities 10. Being Modern, Becoming Native: George Morrison's Surrealist Journey Home / W. Jackson Rushing III 259 11. Falling into the World: The Global Art World of Aloï Pilioko and Nicolaï Michoutouchkine / Peter Brunt 282 12. Constellations and Coordinates: Repositioning Postwar Paris in Stories of African Modernisms / Elizabeth Harney 304 13. Conditions of Engagement: Mobility, Modernism, and Modernity in the Art of Jackson Hlungwani and Sydney Kumalo / Anitra Nettleton 335 14. The Modernist Lens of Lutterodt Studios / Erin Haney 357 Bibliography 377 Contributors 409 Index 415