Prompting a reevaluation of canonical understandings of twentieth century art history, Mapping Modernisms provides an analysis of how indigenous artists and art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas became recognized as modern.

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