Possessions: Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization Thomas Nicholas
Possessions: Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization Thomas Nicholas The arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native America famously inspired twentieth-century modernist artists such as Pablo…
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Possessions: Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization Thomas Nicholas
The arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native America famously inspired twentieth-century modernist artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Max Ernst. Or just one more example of Western colonial appropriation?What might a "decolonized" art history look like? Was this a cross-cultural discovery to be celebrated?
"Decolonization" refers to an event, a liberation. Over the last half- century, scholarship emerged that gave the arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native America dedicated attention--though often in terms associated with tribal art connoisseurship, without acknowledgment of the colonial contexts of Indigenous art traditions or histories of appropriation and violence, and often stopped short of engaging with Indigenous visions or voices. In one sense, decolonization has happened: it was the moment of national independence for formerly colonized nations across Africa,
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