Indian art of the northern plains : an exhibition
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Gebhard, David.; University of California, Santa Barbara. Art Gallery.
The Indian Craze : Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890-1915
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Hutchinson, Elizabeth author.; Thomas, Nicholas editor.
In the early twentieth century, Native American baskets, blankets, and bowls could be purchased from department stores, "Indian stores," dealers, and the U.S. government's Indian schools. Men and women across the United States indulged in a widespread passion for collecting Native American art, which they displayed in domestic nooks called "Indian corners." Elizabeth Hutchinson identifies this collecting as part of a larger "Indian craze" and links it to other activities such as the inclusion of Native American artifacts in art exhibitions sponsored by museums, arts and crafts societies, and World's Fairs, and the use of indigenous handicrafts as models for non-Native artists exploring formal abstraction and emerging notions of artistic subjectivity. She argues that the Indian craze convinced policymakers that art was an aspect of "traditional" Native culture worth preserving, an attitude that continues to influence popular attitudes and federal legislation. Illustrating her argument with images culled from late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century publications, Hutchinson revises the standard history of the mainstream interest in Native American material culture as "art." While many locate the development of this cross-cultural interest in the Southwest after the First World War, Hutchinson reveals that it began earlier and spread across the nation from west to east and from reservation to metropolis. She demonstrates that artists, teachers, and critics associated with the development of American modernism, including Arthur Wesley Dow and Gertrude Käsebier, were inspired by Native art. Native artists were also able to achieve some recognition as modern artists, as Hutchinson shows through her discussion of the Winnebago painter and educator Angel DeCora. By taking a transcultural approach, Hutchinson transforms our understanding of the role of Native Americans in modernist culture.
Iroquoisart
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Sylvia S. Kasprycki (Editor); Doris I. Stambrau (Editor); Alexandra V. Roth (Editor)
This volume brings together contemporary works by 27 major Iroquois artists from the U.S. and Canada whose thriving and varied tradition of creative expression is less well known than that of the Northwest Coast or the Southwest. Contemporary Iroquois artists express themselves in a great variety of media and styles, while emphasizing their Native identity in relation to Western society. The artists' own comments on their work are supplemented by interpretive essays based on extensive interviews with the artists. Other essays by Iroquois and European authors reflect on aspects of Iroquois art, its historical development, and its cultural background.
Murals in the round : painted tipis of the Kiowa and Kiowa-Apache Indians : an exhibition of tipi models made for James Mooney of the Smithsonian Institution during his field studies of Indian history and art in southwestern Oklahoma, 1891-1904
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Ewers, John C. (John Canfield), 1909-1997.; Renwick Gallery.
Maria Martinez : five generations of potters
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Peterson, Susan; Renwick Gallery.
Navajo Pictorial Weaving, 1880-1950
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Tyrone D. Campbell; Joel Kopp; Kate Kopp
Navajo rugs: past, present & future.
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Maxwell, Gilbert S.
White metal universe : Navajo Silver from the Fred Harvey Collection.
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Heard Museum of Anthropology and Primitive Art.; Jernigan, E. W.
Iroquois music and dance; ceremonial arts of two Seneca Longhouses
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Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch.