Possessions: Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization Bird Dusky Robin is a Tasmanian

Dusky Robin is a Tasmanian owned family company

fast birds

arrived Australia 1826

amphibians

Quarter bound with calf leatherette (reconstituted leather)

Possessions: Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization Bird Dusky Robin is a TasmanianThe 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