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Book American Indian Art Magazine

Download or read book American Indian Art Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Floral Journey

Download or read book Floral Journey written by Lois Sherr Dubin and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issued in connection with an exhibition held March 15, 2014-April 26, 2015, the Autry National Center of the American West in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California.

Book Infinity of Nations

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  • Author : National Museum of the American Indian
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2010-10-12
  • ISBN : 006154731X
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Infinity of Nations written by National Museum of the American Indian and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Museum of the American Indian is one of the world's great conservators of cultural heritage, and its collections hold more than 800,000 objects spanning 13,000 years of history of the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, from Tierra del Fuego in the south to the Arctic in the north. Drawing on new insights from archaeology, history, and art history, Infinity of Nations uses culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant objects as a point of entry to understanding the people who created them. Following an introduction on the power of objects to engage our imagination, each chapter presents an overview of a region of the Americas and its cultural complexities, written by a noted specialist on that region. Community knowledge-keepers and an impressive new generation of Native scholars contribute highlights on objects that represent important ideas or that capture moments of social change. Together these writers create an extraordinary mosaic. What emerges is a portrait of a complex and dynamic world shaped from its earliest history by contact and exchange among peoples. Illustrated with more than 200 strikingly beautiful photographs published here for the first time, Infinity of Nations opens new avenues that extend well beyond those of conventional cultural studies. Authoritative and accessible, here is an important resource for anyone interested in learning about Native cultures of the Americas.

Book American Indian Art

Download or read book American Indian Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Becoming Mary Sully

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  • Author : Philip J. Deloria
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2019-04-24
  • ISBN : 029574524X
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Becoming Mary Sully written by Philip J. Deloria and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth-century portraitist Thomas Sully, who captured the personalities of America’s first generation of celebrities (including the figure of Andrew Jackson immortalized on the twenty-dollar bill). Born on the Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota in 1896, she was largely self-taught. Steeped in the visual traditions of beadwork, quilling, and hide painting, she also engaged with the experiments in time, space, symbolism, and representation characteristic of early twentieth-century modernist art. And like her great-grandfather Sully was fascinated by celebrity: over two decades, she produced hundreds of colorful and dynamic abstract triptychs, a series of “personality prints” of American public figures like Amelia Earhart, Babe Ruth, and Gertrude Stein. Sully’s position on the margins of the art world meant that her work was exhibited only a handful of times during her life. In Becoming Mary Sully, Philip J. Deloria reclaims that work from obscurity, exploring her stunning portfolio through the lenses of modernism, industrial design, Dakota women’s aesthetics, mental health, ethnography and anthropology, primitivism, and the American Indian politics of the 1930s. Working in a complex territory oscillating between representation, symbolism, and abstraction, Sully evoked multiple and simultaneous perspectives of time and space. With an intimate yet sweeping style, Deloria recovers in Sully’s work a move toward an anti-colonial aesthetic that claimed a critical role for Indigenous women in American Indian futures—within and distinct from American modernity and modernism.

Book Native Paths

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  • Author : Janet Catherine Berlo
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 0870998579
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Native Paths written by Janet Catherine Berlo and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1998 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue includes 139 Native North American works of art that represent many peoples and a variety of materials and functions, presented here for their aesthetic value.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Book Art of the Ancestors

Download or read book Art of the Ancestors written by George Everett Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the award-winning Art of Grace and Passion comes this spotlight on North American artisanship between 200 BC and the early 1900s. The masterworks featured here range from clothing, accessories, and ceremonial and hunting gear to blankets, cradles, storage vessels, and utensils. Each was crafted of such diverse materials as quills, ivory, hide, wood, fibers, stone, clay, and even glass beads imported by European traders. George Everett Shaw, Steven C. Brown, Benson L. Lanford, and Bill Mercer examine how American Indians' existence developed around the challenges and benefits of the climate, terrain, flora, and fauna of their locales. Their art objects embody the spiritual devotion--inseparable from their relationship with the natural world--that even now shapes their lives. Whether decorated with abstract patterns or with representations of humans and animals, such pieces were vehicles for passing down beliefs and customs before written languages existed. Thus we can appreciate them not only for their beauty and the skill and ingenuity of their makers but also in the context of the cultures from which they sprang.

Book The American Indian Magazine

Download or read book The American Indian Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Plains Indian Art

Download or read book Plains Indian Art written by John Canfield Ewers and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on years of field research with Native Americans, careful scholarship, and exhaustive firsthand studies of museum collections around the world, Ewers's publications have long been required reading for anyone interested in the cultures of the Plains peoples, especially their visual art traditions. This vividly illustrated collection of Ewers's writings presents studies first published in American Indian Art Magazine and other periodicals between 1968 and 1992.

Book Encyclopedia Of American Indian Costume

Download or read book Encyclopedia Of American Indian Costume written by Josephine Paterek and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996-03-05 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully produced and illustrated (bandw) reference that offers complete descriptions and cultural contexts of the dress and ornamentation of the North American Indian tribes. The volume is divided into ten cultural regions, with each chapter giving an overview of the regional clothing. Individual tribes of the area follow in alphabetical order. Tribal information includes men's basic dress, women's basic dress, footwear, outer wear, hair styles, headgear, accessories, jewelry, armor, special costumes, garment decoration, face and body embellishment, transitional dress after European contact, and bibliographic references. Appendices include a description of clothing arts and a glossary. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Art for a New Understanding

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  • Author : Mindy N. Besaw
  • Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
  • Release : 2018-10-24
  • ISBN : 1682260801
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Art for a New Understanding written by Mindy N. Besaw and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art for a New Understanding, an exhibition from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art that opened in October 2018, seeks to radically expand and reposition the narrative of American art since 1950 by charting a history of the development of contemporary Indigenous art from the United States and Canada, beginning when artists moved from more regionally-based conversations and practices to national and international contemporary art contexts. This fully illustrated volume includes essays by art historians and historians and reflections by the artists included in the collection. Also included are key contemporary writings—from the 1950s onward—by artists, scholars, and critics, investigating the themes of transculturalism and pan-Indian identity, traditional practices conducted in radically new ways, displacement, forced migration, shadow histories, the role of personal mythologies as a means to reimagine the future, and much more. As both a survey of the development of Indigenous art from the 1950s to the present and a consideration of Native artists within contemporary art more broadly, Art for a New Understanding expands the definition of American art and sets the tone for future considerations of the subject. It is an essential publication for any institution or individual with an interest in contemporary Native American art, and an invaluable resource in ongoing scholarly considerations of the American contemporary art landscape at large.

Book Native Moderns

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  • Author : Bill Anthes
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2006-11-03
  • ISBN : 9780822338666
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Native Moderns written by Bill Anthes and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated art history situates the work of pioneering mid-twentieth-century Native American artists within the broader canon of American modernism.

Book Re riding History

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  • Author : Phillip Earenfight
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9780986126369
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Re riding History written by Phillip Earenfight and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Re-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to the Matanzas Bay is a curatorial project composed of works on paper by seventy-two contemporary Native and non-Native artists who were invited to respond to events associated with the capture, relocation, three-year imprisonment, and forced acculturation of seventy-two Plains Indian warriors at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, from 1875-1878"--page 7.

Book Argentine Indian Art

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  • Author : Alejandro Eduardo Fiadone
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2012-07-17
  • ISBN : 0486158624
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Argentine Indian Art written by Alejandro Eduardo Fiadone and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning collection of 284 rare designs is a bonanza for artists and craftspeople seeking distinctive patterns with a South American Indian flavor. The carefully adapted, authentic motifs include animal and totemic designs, geometric and rectilinear figures, abstracts, grids, and many other styles in a wide range of shapes and sizes.

Book Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast

Download or read book Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast written by Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inseparable from its communities, Northwest Coast art functions aesthetically and performatively beyond the scope of non-Indigenous scholarship, from demonstrating kinship connections to manifesting spiritual power. Contributors to this volume foreground Indigenous understandings in recognition of this rich context and its historical erasure within the discipline of art history. By centering voices that uphold Indigenous priorities, integrating the expertise of Indigenous knowledge holders about their artistic heritage, and questioning current institutional practices, these new essays "unsettle" Northwest Coast art studies. Key themes include discussions of cultural heritage protections and Native sovereignty; re-centering women and their critical role in transmitting cultural knowledge; reflecting on decolonization work in museums; and examining how artworks function as living documents. The volume exemplifies respectful and relational engagement with Indigenous art and advocates for more accountable scholarship and practices.

Book Hearts of Our People

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  • Author : Jill Ahlberg Yohe
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9780295745794
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Hearts of Our People written by Jill Ahlberg Yohe and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Women have long been the creative force behind Native American art, yet their individual contributions have been largely unrecognized, instead treated as anonymous representations of entire cultures. 'Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists' explores the artistic achievements of Native women and establishes their rightful place in the art world. This lavishly illustrated book, a companion to the landmark exhibition, includes works of art from antiquity to the present, made in a variety of media from textiles and beadwork to video and digital arts. It showcases more than 115 artists from the United States and Canada, spanning over one thousand years, to reveal the ingenuity and innovation fthat have always been foundational to the art of Native women."--Page 4 of cover.

Book Studies in American Indian Art

Download or read book Studies in American Indian Art written by Christian F. Feest and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feder (1930-95) was a hobbyist artisan, author, curator, and editor who contributed significantly to the theoretical and methodological foundation of American Indian art as it emerged from the dusky corridors of museum anthropology to public prominence and the upscale art market. American, Canadian, and European anthropologists explore topics relating to his interests. Most of the illustrations are in color. Distributed in the US by University of Washington Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.