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Possessions : Indigenous art, colonial culture, decolonization Cover Image Book Book

Possessions : Indigenous art, colonial culture, decolonization / Nicholas Thomas.

Thomas, Nicholas, 1960- (author.).

Summary:

Tribal art has been one of the great inspirations of 20th-century Western art. Europeans such as Picasso, Matisse, Ernst and Brancusi created their own responses to masks, sculpture and other forms of African, Oceanic and American art. But is this a cross-cultural discovery to be celebrated, or just one more example of Western colonial appropriation?

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780500296592 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  • Edition: Second edition.
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 2022.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Beginnings -- Landscapes -- Objects -- Artworks -- Presences -- Hierarchies -- Situations -- Identities -- Endings -- Retrospect/Prospect.

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Subject: Folk art > Australia.
Folk art > New Zealand.
Indigenous peoples > Colonization.
Indigenous peoples > Ethnic identity.
Aboriginal Australians > Ethnic identity.
Maori (New Zealand people) > Ethnic identity.
Art, Modern > Primitive influences.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

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