Possessions Indigenous Art Colonial Culture DecolonizationThe 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? What might a "decolonized" art history look like? Over the last half century, scholarship emerged that gave the arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native America dedicated attention though