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Possessions - Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization (Hardcover, New Edition)
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Possessions - Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization (Hardcover, New Edition)
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A timely re-examination of European engagements with indigenous art
and the presence of indigenous art in the contemporary art world.
The arts of Africa, Oceania and native America famously inspired
twentieth-century modernist artists such as Picasso, Matisse and
Ernst. The politics of such stimulus, however, have long been
highly contentious: was this a cross-cultural discovery to be
celebrated, or just one more example of Western colonial
appropriation? This revelatory book explores cross-cultural art
through the lens of settler societies such as Australia and New
Zealand, where Europeans made new nations, displacing and
outnumbering but never eclipsing native peoples. In this dynamic of
dispossession and resistance, visual art has loomed large. Settler
artists and designers drew upon Indigenous motifs and styles in
their search for distinctive identities. Yet powerful Indigenous
art traditions have asserted the presence of First Nations peoples
and their claims to place, history and sovereignty. Cultural
exchange has been a two-way process, and an unpredictable one:
contemporary Indigenous art draws on global contemporary practice,
but moves beyond a bland affirmation of hybrid identities to insist
on the enduring values and attachment to place of Indigenous
peoples.
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