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Native North American art

Title
Native North American art / Janet Catherine Berlo and Ruth B. Phillips.
Author
Berlo, Janet Catherine
Publication
  • Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
  • ©1998

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Additional Authors
Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss), 1945-
Description
ix, 291 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 25 cm
Summary
Explores the Indigenous arts of the U.S. and Canada from the early pre-Columbian period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions.
Series Statement
Oxford history of art
Uniform Title
Oxford history of art
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-273) and index.
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 pwoer -- 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 region : an 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 oral tradition -- 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, 1950-80 -- Institutional frameworks and modernisms in Canada -- Postmodernism, installation, and other post-studio art.
ISBN
  • 0192842668
  • 9780192842664
  • 0192842188
  • 9780192842183
LCCN
99177938
OCLC
  • ocm40139820
  • 40139820
  • SCSB-576024
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library