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Native North American art / Janet Catherine Berlo and Ruth B. Phillips.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford history of artPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.Description: ix, 291 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0192842668
  • 9780192842664
  • 0192842188
  • 9780192842183
Subject(s):
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An innovative survey of Native North American art history which fully incorporates substantive new research and scholarship, and examines such issues as gender, representation, the colonial encounter, and contemporary arts. By encompassing both the sacred and secular, political and domestic, the ceremonial and commercial, it shows the importance of the visual arts in maintaining the integrity of spiritual, social , political, and economic systems within Native North American societies. This exciting new investigation explores the indigenous arts of the US and Canada from the early pre-contact period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions. The richness of Native American art is emphasized through discussions of basketry, wood and rock carvings, dance masks, and beadwork, alongside the contemporary vitality of paintings and installations by modern artists such as Robert Davidson, Emmi Whitehorse, and Alex Janvier. 'the best guide yet to understanding the complexities of Native North American art . . . a solidly ground, sophisticated history, combining art history, anthropology, and cultural studies . . . splendidly well-written . . . useful and timely.' Gerald McMaster, Curator of Art, Canadian Museum of Civilization

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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