TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berlo,Janet Catherine
AU  - Phillips,Ruth B.
TI  - Native North American art
T2  - Oxford history of art
SN  - 0192842668
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Indian art
KW  - North America
KW  - Antiquities
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -