书名：Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture 财产：土著艺术/殖民文化
定价：180.0
ISBN：9780500280973
作者：Thomas, Nicholas
版次：1
出版时间：1999-01

内容提要：

ISBN：9780500280973

书名：Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture

作者：Nicholas Thomas

出版：Thames & Hudson，1999

装帧：平装，304页，183幅插图，20彩

语种：英文

开本：16×23cm

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? This work seeks to prove that both viewpoints are too simplistic. It focuses on the distinctive situation of the settler society - countries such as Australia and New Zealand in which large numbers of Europeans made their home, displacing but never entirely eclipsing native peoples. Settler artists and designers have drawn on indigenous motifs and styles to create art. Yet powerful indigenous art traditions have also been used to assert the presence of native peoples and their prior claim to sovereignty. Cultural exchange proves to be a two-way process, and an unpredictable one: much contemporary indigenous art draws on modern Western art, while affirming ancestral values and rejecting the European appropriation of tribal culture.