Record details

• ISBN: 9780192842183 (softcover)
• ISBN: 9780192842664
• ISBN: 0192842188 (pbk.)
• ISBN: 0192842668
• Physical Description: ix, 291 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, [1998]
• Copyright: ©1998

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-273) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 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

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Indigenous art > North America
Indigenous art > North America
Indigenous of North America > Material culture
Indigenous peoples > North America > Material culture
North America > Antiquities

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