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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
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Janet CatherineBerloSusan B. Anthony Chair of Gender and Women's Studies and Professor of Art HistoryRochester University, New York.
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Library Journal Review
This latest in Oxford's "History of Art" series makes a fine statement, covering in fewer than 300 pages the artistic output of most Native American tribes across the northern hemisphere over a period of more than eight centuries. Both scholars have written on Native American art before, and the writing, although a trifle pedantic at times, flows smoothly, balancing the sweep of history and the diversity of tribal customs across the continent. In an introduction that stresses the commonality of themesÄcosmology, vision quests, love of ornament, reverence of materialsÄthey emphasize the importance of today's Native art as a natural extension. Five regional chapters then incorporate history, outstanding crafts and arts, some prominent figures, and social, religious, and cultural aspects. A final and perhaps disproportionately long chapter treats the present trends in what is termed modern Native art. Illustrations are especially fresh, varied, and well chosen, and a number of maps, a time line, and a bibliographic essay recommending further reading are helpful. A solid, basic reference at the right price; suitable for all libraries.ÄGay Neale, Southside Virginia Community Coll., Alberta and Keysville (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Chapter 1 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 |
| Chapter 2 The Southwest The Southwest as a Region |
| The Ancient World |
| From the Colonial Era to the Modern Pueblos |
| Navajo and Apache Arts |
| Chapter 3 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 |
| Chapter 4 The West Introduction |
| The Great Plains |
| The Intermontaine Regionan Artistic Crossroads |
| The Far West: Arts of California and the Great Basin |
| Chapter 5 The North Geography, Environment, and Language in the North |
| Sub-Arctic Clothing: Art to Honour and Protect |
| The Arctic |
| Chapter 6 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 Concepts of Replication |
| Northwest Coast Art in the Twentieth Century |
| Chapter 7 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 195080 |
| Institutional Frameworks and Modernisms in Canada |
| Postmodernism, Installation, and other Post-Studio Art |
| Notes List of Illustrations |
| Bibliographic Essay Timeline |
| Index |
