Art, Migration, and Global Exchange Lecture Notes

Practice flashcards covering vocabulary and key concepts from lecture notes on global artists, cultural identity, and the history of migration in art.

Lisa Reihana

An internationally recognized filmmaker, photographer, and member of the Pacific Sisters born in 1964 in Auckland, New Zealand, who uses digital media to re-frame histories of empire through her Māori identity.

in Pursuit of Venus [infected]

A sixty-four-minute looped video installation by Lisa Reihana representing more than 140 imagined vignettes of Indigenous Pacific life and moments of contact with British sailors.

Māori

The Indigenous people of New Zealand whose ancestors arrived from Polynesia in the northeast Pacific around $1200$ ce.

Mana

A Māori concept describing the sacred power with which objects are imbued, making customary artistic productions such as wood carvings real and immediate presences of ancestors.

Panorama

A type of visual spectacle popular in Europe beginning in the eighteenth century consisting of painted scenes in a large-scale horizontal format representing faraway or exotic locations.

Les sauvages de la mer Pacifique

A novelty wallpaper manufactured by the French company Dufour around $1805$ that served as the inspiration for Lisa Reihana’s in Pursuit of Venus [infected].

Intangible cultural heritage

A category identified by UNESCO in $2003$ to be preserved alongside physical art, including cosmology, social practice, spoken language, music, and dance.

Taonga

A Māori language term meaning "prized possession" that refers to both physical objects and cultural practices.

Osman Hamdi Bey

A high-ranking Ottoman official, museum director, and archaeologist (1842–1910) who was one of the only known Muslim painters to produce work in a European Orientalist style.

Orientalism

A genre popular in nineteenth-century Europe featuring imagined, Western views of the customs, people, and places of the Muslim-majority regions in North Africa and the Middle East.

Hadith

A collection of sayings attributed to the Prophet Muhammad that contains a proscription on making images of holy figures and living beings, though the interpretation of this has varied across Muslim traditions.

Yashmak

A gauzy head and face covering popular in the late Ottoman period which Osman Hamdi Bey frequently depicted women wearing in his paintings.

Frida Kahlo

A Mexican painter (1907–1954) known for self-portraits that explored themes of nation, identity, disability, and her mixed-race heritage.

Mexican Revolution

A conflict beginning in $1910$ that sought social reforms including the abolition of landownership systems benefiting European descendants and establishing rights for Indigenous populations.

Mestizaje

The experience of being a mixed-race person, which was a central theme explored in the work of Frida Kahlo.

Indigenismo

A Mexican interest in and celebration of Indigenous life and heritage that emerged in the wake of the Mexican Revolution.

Retablos

Small religious images or altarpieces, traditionally made on scrap or recycled metal for personal devotional use, which inspired the format of Kahlo's work.

Mexicanidad

A term for Mexican identity which Frida Kahlo became more passionate about promoting following her travels to the United States.

Diaspora

Communities of people from particular countries, ethnic groups, or religious backgrounds who have left a homeland and settled in various locations across the world.

Lubaina Himid

A Zanzibar-born British artist (b. 1954) and prominent member of the Black British Art Movement who was the first woman of African descent to win the Turner Prize.

Black British Art Movement

An artistic movement emerging in the $1980\text{s}$ that pushed for more visibility and opportunity for contemporary artists with ancestry from Africa and the Caribbean.

Windrush era

A period starting in $1948$ marked by the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush, during which large numbers of West Indians and other groups immigrated to the United Kingdom.