Native North American art /
Berlo, Janet Catherine.
Native North American art / Janet Catherine Berlo and Ruth B. Phillips. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. - ix, 291 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm. - Oxford history of art . - Oxford history of art. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-273) and index.
An introduction to the indigenous arts of North America. Art history and Native art ; What is "art"? Western discourses and Native American objects ; Modes of appreciation : curiosity, specimen, artefact, and art ; What is an Indian? Clan, community, political structure, and art ; Cosmology ; The map of the cosmos ; The nature of spirit ; Dreams and the vision quest ; Shamanism ; Art and the public celebration of power ; The power of personal adornment ; "Creativity is our tradition" : innovation and tradition in Native American art ; Gender and the making of art -- The southwest. The southwest as a region ; the ancient world ; From the colonial era to the modern Pueblos ; Navajo and Apache arts -- The east. The east as a region ; Hunting cultures, burial practices, and early Woodlands art forms ; Mississippian art and culture ; The cataclysm of contact : the southeast ; The early contact period in the northeast ; Arts of the middle ground ; Arts of self-adornment -- The west. Introduction ; The Great Plains ; The intermontaine region : an artistic crossroads ; The far west : arts of California and the Great Basin -- The north. Geography, environment, and language in the north ; Sub-arctic clothing : art to honour and protect ; The Arctic -- The northwest coast. Origins ; The early contact period ; Styles and techniques ; Western connoisseurship and Northwest Coast art ; Shamanism ; Crest art ; The potlatch ; Art, commodity, and oral tradition ; Northwest Coast art in the twentieth century -- The twentieth century : trends in modern Native art. Questions of definition ; Commoditization and contemporary art ; Moments of beginning ; The southern Plains and the Kiowa five ; The Southwest and the "Studio" style ; The display and marketing of American Indian art : exhibitions, mural projects, and competitions ; Native American modernisms, 1950-80 ; Institutional frameworks and modernisms in Canada ; Postmodernism, installation, and other post-studio art.
Explores the indigenous arts of the U.S. and Canada from the early pre-Columbian period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions.
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Indian art--North America.
North America--Antiquities.
Native North American art / Janet Catherine Berlo and Ruth B. Phillips. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. - ix, 291 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm. - Oxford history of art . - Oxford history of art. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-273) and index.
An introduction to the indigenous arts of North America. Art history and Native art ; What is "art"? Western discourses and Native American objects ; Modes of appreciation : curiosity, specimen, artefact, and art ; What is an Indian? Clan, community, political structure, and art ; Cosmology ; The map of the cosmos ; The nature of spirit ; Dreams and the vision quest ; Shamanism ; Art and the public celebration of power ; The power of personal adornment ; "Creativity is our tradition" : innovation and tradition in Native American art ; Gender and the making of art -- The southwest. The southwest as a region ; the ancient world ; From the colonial era to the modern Pueblos ; Navajo and Apache arts -- The east. The east as a region ; Hunting cultures, burial practices, and early Woodlands art forms ; Mississippian art and culture ; The cataclysm of contact : the southeast ; The early contact period in the northeast ; Arts of the middle ground ; Arts of self-adornment -- The west. Introduction ; The Great Plains ; The intermontaine region : an artistic crossroads ; The far west : arts of California and the Great Basin -- The north. Geography, environment, and language in the north ; Sub-arctic clothing : art to honour and protect ; The Arctic -- The northwest coast. Origins ; The early contact period ; Styles and techniques ; Western connoisseurship and Northwest Coast art ; Shamanism ; Crest art ; The potlatch ; Art, commodity, and oral tradition ; Northwest Coast art in the twentieth century -- The twentieth century : trends in modern Native art. Questions of definition ; Commoditization and contemporary art ; Moments of beginning ; The southern Plains and the Kiowa five ; The Southwest and the "Studio" style ; The display and marketing of American Indian art : exhibitions, mural projects, and competitions ; Native American modernisms, 1950-80 ; Institutional frameworks and modernisms in Canada ; Postmodernism, installation, and other post-studio art.
Explores the indigenous arts of the U.S. and Canada from the early pre-Columbian period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions.
0192842668 9780192842664 0192842188 9780192842183
99177938
GB9954699 bnb GB98Y6710 bnb
20010054669 011943068 Uk
Indian art--North America.
North America--Antiquities.