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Native North American Art

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ISBN-10: 0192842188

ISBN-13: 9780192842183

Edition: 1998

Authors: Janet Catherine Berlo, Ruth B. Phillips

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/19/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.57" wide x 9.37" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

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

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
The Southwest The Southwest as a Region
The Ancient World
From the Colonial Era to the Modern Pueblos
Navajo and Apache Arts
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
The West Introduction
The Great Plains
The Intermontaine Regionan Artistic Crossroads
The Far West: Arts of California and the Great Basin
The North Geography, Environment, and Language in the North
Sub-Arctic Clothing: Art to Honour and Protect
The Arctic
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
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