{"product_id":"mapping-modernisms-9780822368717","title":"Mapping Modernisms","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrompting a reevaluation of canonical understandings of twentieth century art history, \u003ci\u003eMapping Modernisms\u003c\/i\u003e provides an analysis of how indigenous artists and art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas became recognized as modern.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The wide-ranging and meticulously researched essays in\u003ci\u003e Mapping Modernisms\u003c\/i\u003e focus on indigenous artists from Inuit, Zulu, Māori, Pueblo, and Aboriginal cultures, among others, around the world. . . . What emerges from \u003ci\u003eMapping Modernisms\u003c\/i\u003e is that Modernism was not a process of diffusion from Western centers to non-Western peripheries, as it is traditionally constructed in Western narratives, but rather a complex web of mutual inuences and exchanges across the globe.\" -- Naomi Polonsky * Hyperallergic *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMapping Modernisms\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent addition to any collection exploring the history of modernity and the decolonisation of modern art histories, and proposes a new conceptualization of modernity that would benefit any collection looking to re-examine its role in post-colonialism.\" -- Marianne R. Williams * ARLIS\/NA Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMapping Modernisms\u003c\/i\u003e is a concise and carefully compiled selection of essays and art works from across historical and geographical spectrums, which challenge the relationship between postcolonialism and metahistorical concepts of modernity.\" -- Natalie Ilsley * Visual Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"Dispelling assumptions of the past, the authors reveal the artist to be as cognizant of the exigencies of their complicated histories and lives, as they are in command of their expressive forms. \u003ci\u003eMapping Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e sheds much needed light onto the artistic production of modernist artists living in post- and neocolonial countries in the early twentieth century.\" -- Cécile Rose Ganteaume * Transmotion *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMapping Modernisms\u003c\/i\u003e keys in to several recent trends in cultural studies and art history, including transnationalism, global Indigeneity, and definitions of modernism and modernity. It addresses all of them in productively thought-provoking—and overtly political—ways. This is a volume with an agenda that is both timely and overdue, and, as their comprehensive and rousing introduction makes clear, the editors know it.” -- Louise Siddons * Canadian Journal of History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  ix\u003cbr\u003e General Editors' Foreword \/ Ruth B. Phillips and Nicholas Thomas  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Preface \/ Elizabeth Harney and Ruth B. Phillips  xv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Inside Modernity: Indigeneity, Coloniality, Modernisms \/ Elizabeth Harney and Ruth B. Phillips  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Modern Values\u003cbr\u003e 1. Reinventing Zulu Tradition: The Modernism of Zizwezenyanga Qwabe's Figurative Relief Panels \/ Sandra Klopper  33\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"Hooked Forever on Primitive Peoples\": James Houston and the Transformation of \"Eskimo Handicrafts\" to Inuit Art \/ Heather Igloliorte  62\u003cbr\u003e 3. Making Pictures on Baskets: Modern Indian Painting in an Expanded Field \/ Bill Anthes  91\u003cbr\u003e 4. An Intersection: Bill Reid, Henry Speck, and the Mapping of Modern Northwest Coast Art \/ Karen Duffek  110\u003cbr\u003e 5. Modernism on Display: Negotiating Value in Exhibitions of Māori Art, 1958–1973 \/ Damian Skinner  138\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Modern Identities\u003cbr\u003e 6. \"Artist of PNG\": Mathias Kauage and Melanesian Modernism \/ Nicholas Thomas  163\u003cbr\u003e 7. Modernism and the Art of Albert Namatjira \/ Ian McLean  187\u003cbr\u003e 8. Cape Dorset Cosmopolitans: Making \"Local\" Prints in Global Modernity \/ Norman Vorano  209\u003cbr\u003e 9. Natural Synthesis: Art, Theory, and the Politics of Decolonization in Mid-Twentieth-Century Nigeria \/ Chika Okeke-Agulu  235\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Modern Mobilities\u003cbr\u003e 10. Being Modern, Becoming Native: George Morrison's Surrealist Journey Home \/ W. Jackson Rushing III  259\u003cbr\u003e 11. Falling into the World: The Global Art World of Aloï Pilioko and Nicolaï Michoutouchkine \/ Peter Brunt 282\u003cbr\u003e 12. Constellations and Coordinates: Repositioning Postwar Paris in Stories of African Modernisms \/ Elizabeth Harney  304\u003cbr\u003e 13. Conditions of Engagement: Mobility, Modernism, and Modernity in the Art of Jackson Hlungwani and Sydney Kumalo \/ Anitra Nettleton  335\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Modernist Lens of Lutterodt Studios \/ Erin Haney  357\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  377\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  409\u003cbr\u003e Index  415","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406104011095,"sku":"9780822368717","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822368717.jpg?v=1730494541","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mapping-modernisms-9780822368717","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}