Native American Art in the Twentieth Century: Makers, Meanings and Histories
This illuminating and provocative book is the first anthology devoted to Twentieth Century Native American and First Nation art. Native American Art brings together anthropologists, art historians, curators, critics and distinguished Native artists to discuss pottery, painitng, sculpture, printmaking, photography and performance art by some of the most celebrated Native American and Canadian First Nation artists of our time The contributors use new theoretical and critical approaches to...
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Contemporary Native American and First Nation art has won increasing international recognition in recent years as galleries and museums have begun to make room for Native artists. Provocative and illuminating, Native American Art in the Twentieth Century features the writings of practicing artists, critics, curators and scholars that engage a wide range of critical issues in Native art from the 1890s to the present.Demonstrating its vitality and diversity, the contributors examine pottery, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and performance art by some of the most celebrated Native American and Canadian artists of our time. From the Pueblo pottery revival to the invention and marketing of modern Inuit art, contributors offer new interpretive strategies based on Native culture and knowledge, stressing the significance of tradition, mythology and ceremony in the production of Native art. Tracing the continued resistance of Native artists to dominant orthodoxies of the art market and art history, Native American Art in the Twentieth Century is a testament to Native art's place in modern art history.Contributors: Sara Bates, Bruce Bernstein, Colleen Cutschall, Margaret Dubin, Joe Feddersen, Lucy R. Lippard, Gerald R. McMaster, David W. Penny, Ruth B. Phillips, Kristin K. Potter, Lisa A. Roberts, W. Jackson Rushing III, Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Joseph Traugott, Kay Walking Stick and Elizabeth Woody.BooknewsPracticing artists, critics, curators, and scholars connected with the growing interest in contemporary Native American and Canadian First Nation art apply new theoretical and critical approaches to critical issues. They include the Pueblo pottery revival, auto-ethnography and cultural resistance in Native genre painting, the invention and marketing of modern Inuit art, feminism and ecology, and art history and museum collections. Among the illustrations 21 are in color. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
TABLE OF CONTENTS1. Joseph Traugott-- Fewkes and Nampeyo: Clarifying a Myth-Understanding 2. David W. Penney and Lisa A. Roberts -- America's Pueblo Artists: Encounters on the Borderlands 3. Kristin K. Potter -- James Houston, Armchair Tourism, and the Marketing of Inuit Art 4. Bruce Bernstein -- Context for the Growth and Development of the Indian Art World in the 1960's and 1970's 5. Gerald McMaster -- Towards an Aboriginal Art History 6. Ruth B. Phillips -- Art History and the Native Made Object: New Discourses, Old Differences? 7. Charlotte Townsend-Gault -- Hotdogs, A Ball Gown, Adobe and Words: The Modes and Materials of Identity 8. Lucy R. Lippard -- Independent Identities 9. Margaret Dubin -- Sanctioned Scribes: How Critics and Historians Write the Native American Art World 10. Joe Feddersen and Elizabeth Woody -- The Story as Primary Source: Educating the Gaze 11. Kay WalkingStick -- Seeking the Spiritual 12. Colleen Cutschall -- Garden of the Evening Star 13. Sara Bates -- Honoring Canada) theoretical to the spiritual to the aesthetic, and which encompass regions from the Canadian arctic to the desert southwest. This lively volume is a must for all practitioners, historians, and students of Native North American art (Janet Catherine Berlo, Professor of Art History, University of Rochester)
\ BooknewsPracticing artists, critics, curators, and scholars connected with the growing interest in contemporary Native American and Canadian First Nation art apply new theoretical and critical approaches to critical issues. They include the Pueblo pottery revival, auto-ethnography and cultural resistance in Native genre painting, the invention and marketing of modern Inuit art, feminism and ecology, and art history and museum collections. Among the illustrations 21 are in color. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
