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Author: Janet Catherine Berlo Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN: 0870998579 Category : Diker, Charles Languages : en Pages : 130
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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.
Author: Janet Catherine Berlo Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN: 0870998579 Category : Diker, Charles Languages : en Pages : 130
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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.
Author: Bill Anthes Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 9780822338666 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 330
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This lavishly illustrated art history situates the work of pioneering mid-twentieth-century Native American artists within the broader canon of American modernism.
Author: George Catlin Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian American Art Museum ; New York : W.W. Norton ISBN: 9780393052176 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 294
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Showcases the work of the early-nineteenth-century artist who made four trips into Native American country as part of an ambition to paint each tribe, noting the influence of period belief systems on his work as well as his passionate affection for his subjects.
Author: Janet Catherine Berlo Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780192842183 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 306
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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.
Author: Benita Eisler Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 039324086X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 497
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The first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them. George Catlin has been called the “first artist of the West,” as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a “vanishing race” before their “extermination”—his word—by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits—unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty tribes living along the upper Missouri River. Political forces thwarted Catlin’s ambition to sell what he called his “Indian Gallery” as a national collection, and in 1840 the artist began three decades of self-imposed exile abroad. For a time, his exhibitions and writings made him the most celebrated American expatriate in London and Paris. He was toasted by Queen Victoria and breakfasted with King Louis-Philippe, who created a special gallery in the Louvre to show his pictures. But when he started to tour “live” troupes of Ojibbewa and Iowa, Catlin and his fortunes declined: He changed from artist to showman, and from advocate to exploiter of his native performers. Tragedy and loss engulfed both. This brilliant and humane portrait brings to life George Catlin and his Indian subjects for our own time. An American original, he still personifies the artist as a figure of controversy, torn by conflicting demands of art and success.
Author: Susan C. Power Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 9780820325019 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 300
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Early Art of the Southeastern Indians is a visual journey through time, highlighting some of the most skillfully created art in native North America. The remarkable objects described and pictured here, many in full color, reveal the hands of master artists who developed lapidary and weaving traditions, established centers for production of shell and copper objects, and created the first ceramics in North America. Presenting artifacts originating in the Archaic through the Mississippian periods--from thousands of years ago through A.D. 1600--Susan C. Power introduces us to an extraordinary assortment of ceremonial and functional objects, including pipes, vessels, figurines, and much more. Drawn from every corner of the Southeast--from Louisiana to the Ohio River valley, from Florida to Oklahoma--the pieces chronicle the emergence of new media and the mastery of new techniques as they offer clues to their creators’ widening awareness of their physical and spiritual worlds. The most complex works, writes Power, were linked to male (and sometimes female) leaders. Wearing bold ensembles consisting of symbolic colors, sacred media, and richly complex designs, the leaders controlled large ceremonial centers that were noteworthy in regional art history, such as Etowah, Georgia; Spiro, Oklahoma; Cahokia, Illinois; and Moundville, Alabama. Many objects were used locally; others circulated to distant locales. Power comments on the widening of artists’ subjects, starting with animals and insects, moving to humans, then culminating in supernatural combinations of both, and she discusses how a piece’s artistic “language” could function as a visual shorthand in local style and expression, yet embody an iconography of regional proportions. The remarkable achievements of these southeastern artists delight the senses and engage the mind while giving a brief glimpse into the rich, symbolic world of feathered serpents and winged beings.
Author: Heather Ahtone Publisher: University of California Press ISBN: 9780520303942 Category : ART Languages : en Pages : 0
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A catalogue produced by Tacoma Art Museum for the traveling exhibition of thesame name co-organized by the Booth Western Art Museum, the National Cowboy &Western Heritage Museum, and Tacoma Art Museum.
Author: Peter H. Hassrick Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806152680 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 439
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Artist-explorer John Mix Stanley (1814–1872), one of the most celebrated chroniclers of the American West in his time, was in a sense a victim of his own success. So highly regarded was his work that more than two hundred of his paintings were held at the Smithsonian Institution—where in 1865 a fire destroyed all but seven of them. This volume, featuring a comprehensive collection of Stanley’s extant art, reproduced in full color, offers an opportunity—and ample reason—to rediscover the remarkable accomplishments of this outsize figure of nineteenth-century American culture. Originally from New York State, Stanley journeyed west in 1842 to paint Indian life. During the U.S.-Mexican War, he joined a frontier military expedition and traveled from Santa Fe to California, producing sketches and paintings of the campaign along the way—work that helped secure his fame in the following decades. He was also appointed chief artist for Isaac Stevens’s survey of the 48th parallel for a proposed transcontinental railroad. The essays in this volume, by noted scholars of American art, document and reflect on Stanley’s life and work from every angle. The authors consider the artist’s experience on government expeditions; his solo tours among the Oregon settlers and western and Plains Indians; and his career in Washington and search for government patronage, as well as his individual works. With contributions by Emily C. Burns, Scott Manning Stevens, Lisa Strong, Melissa Speidel, Jacquelyn Sparks, and Emily C. Wilson, the essays in this volume convey the full scope of John Mix Stanley’s artistic accomplishment and document the unfolding of that uniquely American vision throughout the artist’s colorful life. Together they restore Stanley to his rightful place in the panorama of nineteenth-century American life and art.
Author: National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing ISBN: 9781555911126 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 104
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Presents an illustrated examination of the role of horses in Native American culture and history, providing information on the depiction of horses in tribal clothing, tools, and other objects.
Author: Lois Sherr Dubin Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 9780615881164 Category : Decoration and ornament Languages : en Pages : 0
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Issued in connection with an exhibition held March 15, 2014-April 26, 2015, the Autry National Center of the American West in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California.
Author: Janet Catherine Berlo
Author: Janet Catherine Berlo
Author: Bill Anthes
Author: George Catlin
Author: Janet Catherine Berlo
Author: Benita Eisler
Author: Susan C. Power
Author: Heather Ahtone
Author: Peter H. Hassrick
Author: National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Author: Lois Sherr Dubin