The Institute of American Indian Arts: Modernism and U.S. Indian Policy

by Joy L. Gritton; Gregory Cajete

• ISBN13: 9780826321923
• ISBN10: 0826321925
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

The Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe has been widely credited with revolutionizing and revitalizing modern Indian painting. This volume, the first book-length study of the IAIA, examines the history, patronage, and ideology of the Institute. Hailed as a success story since it replaced the Santa Fe Indian School's "Studio" in 1962, the IAIA met with enthusiastic response from the popular press, the federal government, and the international arts community. Many of the most successful Indian artists were connected with the IAIA either as faculty or students, including Fritz Scholder, T. C. Cannon, Allan Houser, and Dan Namingha, to name a few.

Until now there has been a large void in critical writing on this influential institution and on the role of the federal government in mainstreaming Native peoples at a time when Indian art was coming to be viewed as uniquely American. This book provides an important contribution to current dialogues regarding the role of education in cultural change, government patronage of the arts, and Native artistic auton

Author Biography

Gregory Cajete teaches in the College of Education at the University of New Mexico and is a member of the Santa Clara Pueblo.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii
Acknowledgments	ix
Foreword	xi
Gregory Cajete
Introduction	1	(6)
The 1959 Rockefeller Directions in Indian Art Conference	7	(34)
The Southwestern Indian Art Project, 1960-1963	41	(24)
The Institute of American Indian Arts: A Tumultuous Gestation, 1960-1962	65	(38)
A Convergence of Ideologies, 1962-1968	103	(48)
Conclusions	151	(30)
Selected Bibliography	181	(10)
Index	191