Early Years of Native American Art History The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting

Name: Early Years of Native American Art History The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting
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ISBN: 9780295972022

ISBN-10: 0295972025

ISBN-13: 9780295972022

Edition: 1992

Authors: Janet Catherine Berlo

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This collection of essays deals with the development of Native American art history as a discipline rather than with particular art works or artists. It focuses on the early anthropologists, museum curators, dealers, and collectors, and on the multiple levels of understanding and misunderstanding, a

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Janet Catherine Berlo is Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester.

Preface
Introduction: The Formative Years of Native American Art History	p. 1
Franz Boas, John Swanton, and the New Haida Sculpture at the American Museum of Natural History	p. 22
New Questions for "Old Things": The Brooklyn Museum's Zuni Collection	p. 62
Louisa Keyser and the Cohns: Mythmaking and Basket Making in the American West	p. 88
"The Artist Himself": The Salish Basketry Monograph and the Beginnings of a Boasian Paradigm	p. 134
Lila Morris O'Neale: Ethnoaesthetics and the Yurok-Karok Basket Weavers of Northwestern California	p. 162
Marketing the Affinity of the Primitive and the Modern: Rene d'Harnoncourt and "Indian Art of the United States"	p. 191
Contributors	p. 237
Index	p. 239
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