Author: Lael MorganPublisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Biography of Alaska Native leader, artist and founder and editor of the newspaper, Tundra Times.
Art and Eskimo Power
Author: Lael MorganPublisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Biography of Alaska Native leader, artist and founder and editor of the newspaper, Tundra Times.
Art and Eskimo Power
Author: Lael MorganPublisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
ISBN: 9781942078371
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A shaman had predicted that Howard Rock would become a great man. He was born in 1911 in Point Hope, an Inupiat village in northwest Alaska where the people had lived off the land and sea for centuries. Instead of following tradition, however, Howard elected to go to a government boarding school and became a successful artist. Later he defended his people against a government plan to excavate a harbor near his village with a powerful atomic blast. Then he co-founded and edited the Tundra Times, a newspaper that aided Alaska's Native people in pressing their aboriginal claims before Congress, ultimately winning a settlement of $1 billion and 40 million acres.
Art and Eskimo Power
Author: Lael MorganPublisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602230218
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
At Howard Rock's birth, a shaman predicted that he would become a great man. Born in 1911 in a sod igloo in Point Hope, an ancient Eskimo village, Howard became an accomplished artist and crusading newspaper editor who helped to defend his people from a controversial Atomic Energy Commission proposal to excavate a harbor near his native village with an atomic blast. Art and Eskimo Power chronicles the life of this influential and artist, editor, and founder of the Tundra Times--under whose leadership the newspaper helped to organize Alaska's native people to press their aboriginal land claims before Congress, which ultimately led to their being awarded over $1 billion and 40 million acres.
The Graphic Art of the Eskimos
Author: Walter James HoffmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimo art
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Eskimo Drawings
Author: Suzi JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Originally published in conjunction with a 2003 exhibition organized by the Anchorage Museum of History and Art and co-curated by Suzi Jones and Walter Van Horn, Eskimo Drawings marks the first time that Alaska Eskimo artwork has been the exclusive subject of a major exhibition and publication. Accompanied by full-color illustrations, as well as black-and-white photographic reproductions, Eskimo Drawings features only a few works that have ever been exhibited previously while showcasing the work of previously undiscovered Eskimo artists. Covering topics as diverse as artistic considerations in the Eskimo graphic arts and an analysis of the work of Happy Jack and Guy Kakarook, this remarkable volume includes contributions by Susan W. Fair, Russell Hartman, Herbert O. Anungazuk, Steve Henrikson, Molly Lee, Mary Jane Anuqsraaq Melovidov, Patrick Minock, David Mollett, Dorothy Jean Ray, Susie Silook, Birgitte Sonne, and David P. Sweeney. Not to be missed by any art historian with an interest in Alaska Eskimo and Alaska Native art, this fascinating and fully illustrated collection is an unsurpassed survey of the field.
Graphic Arts of the Alaskan Eskimo
Author: Dorothy Jean RayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimo art
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Graphic Art of the Eskimos
Author: Walter James HoffmanPublisher: New York : AMS Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Alaskan Eskimo Life in the 1890s as Sketched by Native Artists
Author: George E. PhebusPublisher: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
In this book, originally published in 1972 by the Smithsonian Institution Press, the author presents a valuable study of the cultural context illustrated by the drawings and paintings that were discovered during the summer of 1967. Found in an old storage unit at the Smithsonian's Department of Anthropology in the National Museum of Natural History, the sketches depict various scenes of Eskimo life as drawn by Natives in the 1890s. These materials, which apparently had been inadvertently stored with similar artwork used in printing early publications of the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, were mounted on large cardboard posters and labeled "Education in Alaska", and were attributed to the United States Bureau of Education. George Phebus took an interest in the sketches but attempts to research their origin resulted in meager historical and geographical data. Phebus concluded that the art was a product of various students in public and private schools in northwestern Alaska during the 1890s and observes, "Their greatest value lies in their providing us with a pictorial record of Alaskan Eskimo life as depicted by native artists just prior to the drastic changes of the 20th century".
Eskimo Art
Author: Dorothy Jean RayPublisher: J.J. Douglas
ISBN: 9780888941305
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Well illustrated account of Alaskan Eskimo art and it's transition as a result of contact with outside cultures.
Artists of the Tundra and the Sea
Author: Dorothy Jean RayPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Eskimo art
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Results of author's field work among Alaskan Eskimo ivory carvers; archaeological and historical art styles described and analyzed.