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Igloliorte, Heather; Taunton, Carla

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2023

A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework

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2023

A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework

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The Anthropology of Art, After the End of Art: Contesting the Art-Culture System

Kisin

Myers

2019

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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We focus on the anthropology of art from the mid-1980s to the present, a period of disturbance and significant transformation in the field of anthropology. The field can be understood to be responding to the destabilization of the category of “art” itself. Inaugural moments lie in the reaction to the Museum of Modern Art's 1984 exhibition “Primitivism” in 20th Century Art, the increasing crisis of representation, the influence of “postmodernism,” and the rising tide of decolonization and globalization, marked by the 1984 Te Maori exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Changes involve boundaries being negotiated, violated, and refigured, and not simply the boundaries between the so-called “West” and “the rest” but also those of “high” and “low,” leading to a re-evaluation of public culture. In this review, we pursue the influence of changing theories of art and engagements with what had been noncanonical art in the mainstream art world, tracing multiple intersections between art and anthropology in the contemporary moment.

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Eternal Sovereigns and Ancestral Art

2024

Eternal Sovereigns

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The fourth chapter considers how cultural belongings made using Indigenous methods and hands resonate beyond the colonial space of the Vatican Museums. Although missionaries and pope Pius XI considered them as silent markers of missionary progress because of their removal from Indigenous communities, the chapter contends that they endure in the present as markers of Indigenous cosmologies and understandings. The chapter focuses on five works by unnamed but once known Indigenous artists that are now held by the Vatican Museums: a Haudenosaunee wampum belt, a Passamaquoddy cross, a Lakota Sun Dance drawing, Cree beaded moccasins, and a Kwakwaka'wakw ancestral sun mask. Indigenous cultural belongings matter; as teachers, ancient archives, and evidence of self-sustaining practices, they create ancestral art history lessons that disrupt both pope Pius XI's and pope Francis's logic of “silent eloquence” and the colonial views of missionaries and visitors. No belongings have been repatriated despite Indigenous communities' requests.

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The Anthropology of Art, After the End of Art: Contesting the Art-Culture System

Eternal Sovereigns and Ancestral Art

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