Native American Art in the Twentieth Century: Makers, Meanings, Histories

by Rushing III,W. Jackson

• ISBN13: 9780415137485
• ISBN10: 0415137489
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This illuminating and provocative book is the first anthology devoted to Twentieth Century Native American and First Nation art. Native American Artbrings together anthropologists, art historians, curators, critics and distinguished Native artists to discuss pottery, painitng, sculpture, printmaking, photography and performance art by some of the most celebrated Native American and Canadian First Nation artists of our time The contributors use new theoretical and critical approaches to address key issues for Native American art, including symbolism and spirituality, the role of patronage and musuem practices, the politics of art criticism and the aesthetic power of indigenous knowledge. The artist contributors, who represent several Native nations - including Cherokee, Lakota, Plains Cree, and those of the PLateau country - emphasise the importance of traditional stories, myhtologies and ceremonies in the production of comtemporary art. Within great poignancy, thye write about recent art in terms of home, homeland and aboriginal sovereignty Tracing the continued resistance of Native artists to dominant orthodoxies of the art market and art history, Native American Art in the Twentieth Centuryargues forcefully for Native art's place in modern art history.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments for illustrations	x
Notes on the contributors	xiii
Editor's foreword	xviii
Acknowledgments	xxi
Part I Introduction	3	(72)
W. Jackson Rushing III
Fewkes and Nampeyo: Clarifying a Myth-Understanding	7	(14)
Joseph Traugott
America's Pueblo Artists: Encounters on the Borderlands	21	(18)
David W. Penney
Lisa A. Roberts
James Houston, Armchair Tourism, and the Marketing of Inuit Art	39	(18)
Kristin K. Potter
Contexts for the Growth and Development of the Indian Art World in the 1960s and 1970s	57	(18)
Bruce Bernstein
Part II Introduction	75	(94)
W. Jackson Rushing III
Towards an Aboriginal Art History	81	(16)
Gerald R. McMaster
Art History and the Native-made Object: New Discourses, Old Differences?	97	(16)
Ruth B. Phillips
Hot Dogs, a Ball Gown, Adobe, and Words: The Modes and Materials of Identity	113	(21)
Charlotte Townsend-Gault
Independent Identities	134	(15)
Lucy R. Lippard
Sanctioned Scribes: How Critics and Historians Write the Native American Art World	149	(20)
Margaret Dubin
Part III Introduction	169	(36)
W. Jackson Rushing III
The Story as Primary Source: Educating the Gaze	174	(10)
Joe Feddersen
Elizabeth Woody
Seeking the Spiritual	184	(5)
Kay WalkingStick
Garden of the Evening Star	189	(7)
Colleen Cutschall
Honoring	196	(9)
Sara Bates
Index	205