Elizabeth Harney is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Toronto and author of In Senghor's Shadow: Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960-1995, also published by Duke University Press, and Ethiopian Passages: Contemporary Art from the Diaspora.

Ruth B. Phillips is Professor of Art History at Carleton University and author of several books, including Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums and Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900.

List of Illustrations ix
General Editors' Foreword / Ruth B. Phillips and Nicholas Thomas xiii
Preface / Elizabeth Harney and Ruth B. Phillips xv
Introduction. Inside Modernity: Indigeneity, Coloniality, Modernisms / Elizabeth Harney and Ruth B. Phillips 1
Part I. Modern Values
1. Reinventing Zulu Tradition: The Modernism of Zizwezenyanga Qwabe's Figurative Relief Panels / Sandra Klopper 33
2. "Hooked Forever on Primitive Peoples": James Houston and the Transformation of "Eskimo Handicrafts" to Inuit Art / Heather Igloliorte 62
3. Making Pictures on Baskets: Modern Indian Painting in an Expanded Field / Bill Anthes 91
4. An Intersection: Bill Reid, Henry Speck, and the Mapping of Modern Northwest Coast Art / Karen Duffek 110
5. Modernism on Display: Negotiating Value in Exhibitions of M¿ori Art, 1958–1973 / Damian Skinner 138
Part II. Modern Identities
6. "Artist of PNG": Mathias Kauage and Melanesian Modernism / Nicholas Thomas 163
7. Modernism and the Art of Albert Namatjira / Ian McLean 187
8. Cape Dorset Cosmopolitans: Making "Local" Prints in Global Modernity / Norman Vorano 209
9. Natural Synthesis: Art, Theory, and the Politics of Decolonization in Mid-Twentieth-Century Nigeria / Chika Okeke-Agulu 235
Part III. Modern Mobilities
10. Being Modern, Becoming Native: George Morrison's Surrealist Journey Home / W. Jackson Rushing III 259
11. Falling into the World: The Global Art World of Aloï Pilioko and Nicolaï Michoutouchkine / Peter Brunt 282
12. Constellations and Coordinates: Repositioning Postwar Paris in Stories of African Modernisms / Elizabeth Harney 304
13. Conditions of Engagement: Mobility, Modernism, and Modernity in the Art of Jackson Hlungwani and Sydney Kumalo / Anitra Nettleton 335
14. The Modernist Lens of Lutterodt Studios / Erin Haney 357
Bibliography 377
Contributors 409
Index 415