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Pamphlets on the Art of the American Indian
Author: American Indian Design and Decoration
Author: Le Roy H. AppletonPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486135993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Full text, plus more than 700 precise drawings of basketry, sculpture, painting, pottery, sand paintings, metal, much more. 4 plates in color. Text gives lore and tradition behind the designs.
Native American Arts and Crafts
Author: Colin F. TaylorPublisher: Smithmark Publishers
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Art of the Native American Flute
Author: R. Carlos NakaiPublisher: Canyon Records Prod.
ISBN: 9780786628988
Category : Flute
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A comprehensive instruction manual for learning to play the Native American flute, including information on tunings, fingerings, performance technique, tablature, style, history, standard notation, traditional ornaments, and a section on the care and maintenance of the flute. Also features sixteen transcriptions of songs from Nakai's recordings, and an analysis of his career as a recording artist and performer by the ethnomusicologist David P. McAllester.
The Indians of Iowa
Author: Lance M. FosterPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587298171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
An overview of Iowa's Native American tribes that discusses their history, culture, language, and traditions, and includes illustrations.
American Indian Art
Author: North American Indian Art
Author: Peter T. FurstPublisher: New York : Rizzoli
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Encompasses all major tribal areas: the Southwest, California, the Pacific Northwest, the Eskimos of Canada and Alaska, the Plains and the Eastern Woodlands. Numerous colour photographs.
Indian Art in America
Author: Frederick J. DockstaderPublisher: New York : Promontory Press
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The magnificent art and decorative craftsmanship of the Indian tribes of North America appear in all of their colonial variety and complexity in this superb volume. Examples are included of the work of every major region in the areas now comprising the United States and Canada, of most of the numerically important or artistically pre-eminent tribes, and all of the major techniques employed by Indian artists. No reader of this book can long continue in a misapprehension of the stereotyped image of 'the Indian.' The varying cultures which developed on the North American continent - from the Eskimo hunters of the Arctic to the woodland League of the Iroquois, and from the Pueblo agriculturalists to the nomads of the Great Plains - are all represented. Each found its own ways of using available natural resources for utilitarian objects, for religious and ritual purposes, or for sheer aesthetic pleasure. The book abounds in beautiful examples of characteristics shell and quill work, pottery and weaving, deer and buffalo hide painting, carved stone pipes and tomahawks so commonly associated with Indian cultures. Less familiar are illustrations of mysterious stone effigy sculptures from the death-cults of the ancient Southeast; sophisticated carvings in stone and ivory from the Midwest; elaborate horse-trappings and costuming from the Great Plains; and a fascinating variety of masks. Dr. Dockstader draws upon a thorough knowledge of Indian life, custom and artistic tradition to relate this material to its sources in his introduction and in the extensive background comments accompanying each of the illustrations. He sees the art of the American Indian not as a subject for static sociological research, but as a living and continuing expression of a vital people, and he has included in this book a number of examples of recent and contemporary work by Indian artists.
Northwest Coast Indian Art
Author: Bill HolmPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295999500
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
The 50th anniversary edition of this classic work on the art of Northwest Coast Indians now offers color illustrations for a new generation of readers along with reflections from contemporary Northwest Coast artists about the impact of this book. The masterworks of Northwest Coast Native artists are admired today as among the great achievements of the world’s artists. The painted and carved wooden screens, chests and boxes, rattles, crest hats, and other artworks display the complex and sophisticated northern Northwest Coast style of art that is the visual language used to illustrate inherited crests and tell family stories. In the 1950s Bill Holm, a graduate student of Dr. Erna Gunther, former Director of the Burke Museum, began a systematic study of northern Northwest Coast art. In 1965, after studying hundreds of bentwood boxes and chests, he published Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form. This book is a foundational reference on northern Northwest Coast Native art. Through his careful studies, Bill Holm described this visual language using new terminology that has become part of the established vocabulary that allows us to talk about works like these and understand changes in style both through time and between individual artists’ styles. Holm examines how these pieces, although varied in origin, material, size, and purpose, are related to a surprising degree in the organization and form of their two-dimensional surface decoration. The author presents an incisive analysis of the use of color, line, and texture; the organization of space; and such typical forms as ovoids, eyelids, U forms, and hands and feet. The evidence upon which he bases his conclusions constitutes a repository of valuable information for all succeeding researchers in the field. Replaces ISBN 9780295951027
Native American Art - Art History Books for Kids | Children's Art Books
Author: Baby ProfessorPublisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1541939492
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The most significant and popular examples of Native American art can be seen in totem poles. But the Native Americans also used other mediums for their art. Your child will be learning all about the Native American art history in the pages of this book. There are plenty of information to absorb, and pictures to see too! Grab a copy of this book today!