American Indian Art

American Indian Art
Author: Norman Feder
Publisher: Abradale Press
Total Pages: 445
Release: 1971
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780810981324

Discussing and illustrating the art forms of the Native Americans of North America, a comprehensive tour covers such areas as the Plains, the Southwest, California, the Great Basin and the Pacific Plateau, the Pacific Northwest Coast, the Arctic Coast, and the Woodlands.

Native Paths

Native Paths
Author: Janet Catherine Berlo
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1998
Genre: Diker, Charles
ISBN: 0870998579

This catalogue includes 139 Native North American works of art that represent many peoples and a variety of materials and functions, presented here for their aesthetic value.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

North American Indian Art

North American Indian Art
Author: David W. Penney
Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780500203774

Artistic traditions of indigenous North America are explored in a study that draws on the testimonies of oral tradition, Native American history, and North American archaeology, focusing on the artists themselves and their cultural identities. Original.

The Arts of the North American Indian

The Arts of the North American Indian
Author: Philbrook Art Center
Publisher: Hudson Hills
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1986
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780933920569

Fourteen authorities explore sociology, anthropology, art history of Native American creativity.

North American Indian Art

North American Indian Art
Author: Pieter Hovens
Publisher: Zkf Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Indian art
ISBN: 9783981162080

North American Indian Art: Masterpieces and Museum Collections from the Netherlands showcases 114 oustanding examples of Native art and heritage from the Canadian subarctic forests to the American Southwest preserved in Dutch museums. Many of these rare material documents collected between the seventeenth and the twenty-first century have never been published before. They are here stunningly presented as individual works of art and placed into their cultural and historical contexts by forty-two leading American, Canadian, and European experts who weave together the historical narrative of each object's acquisition with current Native and scholarly interpretations of their use and meaning. In his introductory essay Pieter Hovens provides a detailed account of the history of Dutch interests in North American Indian cultures, from the seventeenth-century colonial experience in New Netherland through the collecting activities of public institutions and private connoisseurs to academic scholarship and social engagement. All of these interests have contributed to the wealth and range of objects featured here as well as to the public perception of Native Americans in the Netherlands. This book offers for the first time an overview of all institutional collections of Native North American arts and cultures in a single European country. It is the privilege of the Dutch museums to share these heritage collections with the widest audience possible.

Native North American Art

Native North American Art
Author: Janet Catherine Berlo
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780192842183

The richness of Native American art is explored 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. 53 color photos. 104 halftones. 8 maps.

North American Indian Arts

North American Indian Arts
Author: Andrew Hunter Whiteford
Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1466864761

This eBook is best viewed on a color device. North American Indian Arts is a fascinating introduction to the arts and crafts reflected in the material culture of North American Indians. Knowledge of the skills and techniques developed by the various Native American tribes, and the fine materials produced provides a key to understanding the rich diversity of native cultures. Packed with information and authentic full-color illustrations, this handsome guide will be welcomed by everyone interested in American cultural history.

The Changing Presentation of the American Indian

The Changing Presentation of the American Indian
Author: W. Richard West
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2017-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0295997478

Museums--along with books, newspapers, and Wild West shows in the 19th century, movies and television in the 20th--have shaped our perceptions of American Indians. This book brings together six prominent museum professionals--Native and non-Native--to examine the ways in which Indians and their cultures have been represented by museums in North America and to present new directions museums are already taking. Traditional museum exhibitions of Native American art and culture often represented only the past, ignoring the living Native voice. Today, museums have begun to incorporate Native perspectives in their displays. Even more dramatic is the growth in the number of Indian-run museums. These essays explore the relationships being forged between museums and Native communities to create new techniques for presenting Native American culture. This publication will serve to stimulate the discussions and analyses that can lead to new partnerships and collaborations.

Art of the Ancestors

Art of the Ancestors
Author: George Everett Shaw
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Indian art
ISBN: 9780934324335

From the author of the award-winning Art of Grace and Passion comes this spotlight on North American artisanship between 200 BC and the early 1900s. The masterworks featured here range from clothing, accessories, and ceremonial and hunting gear to blankets, cradles, storage vessels, and utensils. Each was crafted of such diverse materials as quills, ivory, hide, wood, fibers, stone, clay, and even glass beads imported by European traders. George Everett Shaw, Steven C. Brown, Benson L. Lanford, and Bill Mercer examine how American Indians' existence developed around the challenges and benefits of the climate, terrain, flora, and fauna of their locales. Their art objects embody the spiritual devotion--inseparable from their relationship with the natural world--that even now shapes their lives. Whether decorated with abstract patterns or with representations of humans and animals, such pieces were vehicles for passing down beliefs and customs before written languages existed. Thus we can appreciate them not only for their beauty and the skill and ingenuity of their makers but also in the context of the cultures from which they sprang.

Native Moderns

Native Moderns
Author: Bill Anthes
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2006-11-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780822338666

This lavishly illustrated art history situates the work of pioneering mid-twentieth-century Native American artists within the broader canon of American modernism.