TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas,Nicholas
TI  - Possessions: indigenous art/colonial culture/decolonization 
SN  - 9780500296592
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Thames and Hudson
KW  - Art, New Zealand
KW  - Art, Australian
KW  - Themes, motives
KW  - Folk art
KW  - Western influences
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Art, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Ethnic identity
N1  - Previous edition published as "Possessions : indigenous art/colonial culture" in 1999; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Beginnings -- Landscapes: Possession and Dispossession -- Objects: Indigenous Signs in Colonial Design -- Artworks: Indigenous Signs in Colonial Art -- Presences: Indigenous Landscapes, Artworks and Exhibitions -- Hierarchies: From Traditional to Contemporary -- Situations: Indigenous Art in Public Culture -- Identities: Diasporas, Nations and Transactions -- Endings -- Retrospect/Prospect: A Conclusion
N2  - 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?  Highly acclaimed on first publication, and now revised and updated, 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 but never eclipsing Native peoples.  In this dynamic of dispossession and resistance, settler artists and designers have drawn upon Indigenous motifs and styles in their search for distinctive identities, while powerful Indigenous art traditions have asserted the presence of First Nations peoples and their claims to place, history and sovereignty.  Cultural exchange is 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 uphold the enduring values and attachment to place of Indigenous peoples
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