Download or read book Smoky Top written by Bill Holm and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lelooska written by Chris Friday and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Smith - or Lelooska, as he was usually called - was a prominent Native American artist and storyteller in the Pacific Northwest. Born in 1933 of �mixed blood� Cherokee heritage, he was adopted as an adult by the prestigious Kwakiutl Sewid clan and had relationships with elders from a wide range of tribal backgrounds. Initially producing curio items for sale to tourists and regalia for Oregon Indians, Lelooska emerged in the late 1950s as one of a handful of artists who proved crucial to the renaissance of Northwest Coast Indian art. He also developed into a supreme performer and educator, staging shows of dances, songs, and storytelling. During the peak years, from the 1970s to the early 1990s, the family shows with Lelooska as the centerpiece attracted as many as 30,000 people annually. In this book, historian and family friend Chris Friday shares and annotates interviews that he conducted with Lelooska, between 1993 and ending shortly before the artist's death, in 1996. This is the story of a man who reached, quite literally, a million or more people in his lifetime and whose life was at once exceptional and emblematic.
Download or read book Smoky Top the Art and Times of Willie Seaweed written by Bill Holm and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abies milleri sp nov from the Middle Eocene Klondike Mountain Formation Republic Ferry County Washington written by Schorn H. E. and published by Alexander Doweld. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exhibiting Cultures written by Ivan Karp and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors—museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology—represent a variety of stances on the role of museums and their function as intermediaries between the makers of art or artifacts and the eventual viewers.
Download or read book Routes written by James Clifford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-21 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of Culture, one of the defining books for anthropology in the last decade, James Clifford takes the proper measure: a moving picture of a world that doesn't stand still, that reveals itself en route, in the airport lounge and the parking lot as much as in the marketplace and the museum. In this collage of essays, meditations, poems, and travel reports, Clifford takes travel and its difficult companion, translation, as openings into a complex modernity. He contemplates a world ever more connected yet not homogeneous, a global history proceeding from the fraught legacies of exploration, colonization, capitalist expansion, immigration, labor mobility, and tourism. Ranging from Highland New Guinea to northern California, from Vancouver to London, he probes current approaches to the interpretation and display of non-Western arts and cultures. Wherever people and things cross paths and where institutional forces work to discipline unruly encounters, Clifford's concern is with struggles to displace stereotypes, to recognize divergent histories, to sustain "postcolonial" and "tribal" identities in contexts of domination and globalization. Travel, diaspora, border crossing, self-location, the making of homes away from home: these are transcultural predicaments for the late twentieth century. The map that might account for them, the history of an entangled modernity, emerges here as an unfinished series of paths and negotiations, leading in many directions while returning again and again to the struggles and arts of cultural encounter, the impossible, inescapable tasks of translation.
Download or read book In the shadow of the sun written by Canadian Museum of Civilization and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes available, in English, most of the essays written to accompany the Canadian Museum of Civilization’s exhibition of the same name. Not included, are the essays by Gisela Hoffman, Bernadette Driscoll and Elizabeth McLuhan and the exhibition catalogue section which appeared in the original German publication. This book provides an overview of the evolution of contemporary Native Canadian art. Regional styles as well as individual artistic styles are discussed and the various subjects, themes and techniques reflected in the works are examined.
Download or read book Looking at Totem Poles written by Hilary Stewart and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnificent and haunting, the tall cedar sculptures called totem poles have become a distinctive symbol of the native people of the Northwest Coast. The powerful carvings of the vital and extraordinary beings such as Sea Bear, Thunderbird and Cedar Man are impressive and intriguing. In Looking at Totem Poles, Hilary Stewart describes the various types of poles, their purpose, and how they were carved and raised. She also identifies and explains frequently depicted figures and objects. Each pole, shown in a beautifully detailed drawing, is accompanied by a text that points out the crests, figures and objects carved on it. Historical and cultural background are given, legends are recounted and often the carver’s comments or anecdotes enrich the pole’s story. Photographs put some of the poles into context or show their carving and raising.
Download or read book Potlatch at Gitsegukla written by William Beynon and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 200 pages from Beynon's four-notebook account of the five days of potlatches and totem pole raisings he attended at the Gitksan village of Gitsegulka in 1945. Long recognized as one of the most significant written records of Northwest coast potlatching, his account includes detailed and often verbatim information about the events he witnessed, along with his sketches of costumes and pole- raising apparatus. The editors have added photographs, a comprehensive introduction, a timeline of key events in Gitksan history, and several appendices listing names, places, and terms. Canadian card order number: C99-911250-3. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Ethnoarts Index written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales of Ghosts written by Ronald W. Hawker and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years between 1922 and 1961, often referred to as the “Dark Ages of Northwest Coast art,” have largely been ignored by art historians, and dismissed as a period of artistic decline. Tales of Ghosts compellingly reclaims this era, arguing that it was instead a critical period during which the art played an important role in public discourses on the status of First Nations people in Canadian society. Hawker’s insightful examination focuses on the complex functions that Northwest Coast objects, such as the ubiquitous totem pole, played during the period. He demonstrates how these objects asserted the integrity and meaningfulness of First Nations identities, while simultaneously resisting the intent and effects of assimilation enforced by the Canadian government’s denial of land claims, its ban of the potlatch, and its support of assimilationist education. Those with an interest in First Nations and Canadian history and art history, anthropology, museology, and post-colonial studies will be delighted by the publication of this major contribution to their fields.
Download or read book Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes written by Michael M. Ames and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the author's alternative perspective on museology, this new edition includes seven new essays which argue that museums and anthropologists must analyze and offer critiques of "everyday life" - that is, the very social, political and economic systems within which they work.
Download or read book Aboriginality written by Alan Twigg and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of First Invaders (Ronsdale, 2004), Alan Twigg turns his attention to First Nations writers, unearthing more than 300 books by more than 170 mostly unheralded British Columbia aboriginal authors. Taking the reader from residential schools to art galleries, this lively and unprecedented panorama of British Columbia includes trailblazer Pauline Johnson, political organizer George Manuel and Haida carver Bill Reid. Equally important, Aboriginality sheds new light on fascinating, lesser-known figures such as Chief William Sepass, and Howard Adams, to name only two. Nearly half the author profiles are women, including Marilyn Dumont, Lizette Hall and Heather Harris. Each author is presented in historical and chronological context, along with background material on aboriginal history, as well as rare photos, illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography. "Alan Twiggs Aboriginality is unprecedented and indispensable."--Howard White, publisher, Encyclopedia of British Columbia
Download or read book Privileging the Past written by Judith Ostrowitz and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ostrowitz is an art historian and an artist who lives in New York, is affiliated with Yale University, and is a former assistant curator at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Here she presents a thorough, scholarly exploration of the complex issues of authenticity, tradition, and creative translation-carefully considering Northwest Coast dances, ceremonies, masks, painted screens, and houses, and drawing on an extensive body of interviews with tribal leaders, artists, and artisans known and respected in both Native and non-Native venues. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book A Wealth of Thought written by Franz Boas and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Franz Boas--one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century--is best known for his voluminous writings on cultural, physical, and linguistic anthropology, he is also recognized for breaking new ground in the study of so-called primitive art. His writings on art have major historical value because they embody a profound change in art history. Nineteenth-century scholars assumed that all art lay on a continuum from primitive to advanced: artworks of all nonliterate peoples were therefore examples of early stages of development. But Boas’s case studies from his own fieldwork in the Pacific Northwest demonstrated different tenets: the variety of history, the influence of diffusion, the symbolic and stylistic variation in art styles found among groups and sometimes within one group, and the role of imagination and creativity on the part of the artist. This volume presents Boas’s most significant writings on art (dated 1889-1916), many originally published in obscure sources now difficult to locate. The original illustrations and an extensive, combined bibliography are included. Aldona Jonaitis’s careful compilation of articles and the thorough historical and theoretical framework in which she casts them in her introductory and concluding essays make this volume a valuable reference for students of art history and Northwest anthropology, and a special delight for admirers of Boas.
Download or read book The Masterkey written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book JASO written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
