Possessions: Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization Bird Whether big

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Possessions: Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization Bird Whether bigThe arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native America famously inspired twentieth century modernist artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Max Ernst. Was this a cross cultural discovery to be celebrated? Or just one more example of Western colonial appropriation? Possessions, first published in 1999, offered a dynamic and genuinely cross cultural art history, focused on the encounter, or the confrontation, in Australasia between the visual