American Encounters Art, History, and Cultural Identity

Name: American Encounters Art, History, and Cultural Identity
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ISBN: 9780130300041

ISBN-10: 0130300047

ISBN-13: 9780130300041

Edition: 2008

Authors: Angela L. Miller, Janet C. Berlo, Bryan J. Wolf, Jennifer L. Roberts

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American Encounters is a long-awaited dynamic new narrative of the history of American art that focuses on historical encounters among diverse cultures, upon broad structural transformations such as the rise of the middle classes and the emergence of consumer and mass culture, and on the fluid exchanges between ldquo;highrdquo; art and vernacular expression.nbsp;nbsp; The text emphasizes the intersections among cultures and populations, as well as the influences, borrowings, and appropriations that have enriched and vitalized our collective cultural heritage. nbsp; There was a readily perceived need for an up-to-date survey of American art that addressed the thematic, cultural, and…

Book details

List price: $142.80
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Prentice Hall Art
Publication date: 10/11/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 704
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.80" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 4.070
Language: English




From Ancient Times to the Late Colonial Era



The Art of Indigenous Americans before 1500 c.e.


The Art of the Eastern Woodlands


Framing the Discourse: New World Origins


Framing the Discourse: Names and Native Americans


The Art of Archaic and Woodland Cultures


Poverty Point


Hopewell Culture


Mississippian Culture


Myths and Legends: Nineteenth-Century Myths of the Moundbuilders


Moundville


Spiro


Cahokia


Arctic Alaska


Old Bering Sea Culture


Ipiutak Stage


Ancient Art of the Southwest


From Basketmakers to Potters and Architects


Anasazi or Ancestral Pueblo


Chaco Canyon


Mimbres Painted Pottery


Art and Culture Change in the Proto-historic Period: Hopi, Zuni, and Acoma


Conclusion



The Old World and the New: First Phases of Encounter, 1492 date?


European Images of the New World: The First Century


The Earliest Images


Columbus Landing in the Indies


Paradise and Hell


The "Noble Savage"


A Beckoning Princess


Fast Forward: The Long History of the Feathered Headdress


The Empirical Eye of Commerce


John White


De Bry's Great Voyages


New World Maps


Ceremonies of Possession


The Spanish Requirimiento


The French and the Timucua


The English: Taking Possession of the Land


Indigenous Eastern North America: Forging a Middle Ground


New Materials and New Markets


"Powhatan's Mantle"


Horse Effigy Comb


War Club


Pipe Tomahawk


A Pair of Ceremonial Pouches


A Painted Hide


Wampum: A Contract in Shells


Fast Forward: The Repatriation of Wampum


"Fond of Finery": Portraiture and Self-Display


Hendrick and John: Eighteenth-century Gentlemen at the Boundaries of Cultures