Author: United States. Indian Arts and Crafts BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts and crafts movement
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Arts & Crafts of the Native American Tribes
Author: Michael JohnsonPublisher: Firefly Books Limited
ISBN: 9781554079025
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"Details how Native American culture evolved, the artifacts produced on the continent and the ways they were made, and the techniques of decoration and embellishment that utilized a variety of disparate natural commodities that depended on geographical necessity and abundance"--Jacket flap.
A New Deal for Native Art
Author: Jennifer McLerranPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816550379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
As the Great Depression touched every corner of America, the New Deal promoted indigenous arts and crafts as a means of bootstrapping Native American peoples. But New Deal administrators' romanticization of indigenous artists predisposed them to favor pre-industrial forms rather than art that responded to contemporary markets. In A New Deal for Native Art, Jennifer McLerran reveals how positioning the native artist as a pre-modern Other served the goals of New Deal programs—and how this sometimes worked at cross-purposes with promoting native self-sufficiency. She describes federal policies of the 1930s and early 1940s that sought to generate an upscale market for Native American arts and crafts. And by unraveling the complex ways in which commodification was negotiated and the roles that producers, consumers, and New Deal administrators played in that process, she sheds new light on native art’s commodity status and the artist’s position as colonial subject. In this first book to address the ways in which New Deal Indian policy specifically advanced commodification and colonization, McLerran reviews its multi-pronged effort to improve the market for Indian art through the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, arts and crafts cooperatives, murals, museum exhibits, and Civilian Conservation Corps projects. Presenting nationwide case studies that demonstrate transcultural dynamics of production and reception, she argues for viewing Indian art as a commodity, as part of the national economy, and as part of national political trends and reform efforts. McLerran marks the contributions of key individuals, from John Collier and Rene d’Harnoncourt to Navajo artist Gerald Nailor, whose mural in the Navajo Nation Council House conveyed distinctly different messages to outsiders and tribal members. Featuring dozens of illustrations, A New Deal for Native Art offers a new look at the complexities of folk art “revivals” as it opens a new window on the Indian New Deal.
The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest
Author: Lawrence KreismanPublisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN: 0881928496
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This magnificent compendium is the first comprehensive exploration of the Arts and Crafts legacy in the Pacific Northwest. It traces the movement from its nineteenth-century English beginnings to its flowering in Washington and Oregon through the 1920s and beyond, weaving into a tale of idealism and devotion everything from iconic masterpieces to recent discoveries. You will meet the architects, artists, craftspeople, and entrepreneurs in Seattle, Spokane, Portland, and smaller communities throughout the region in their own words in journal entries, letters, articles, and promotional materials of the period. Included are public and private architecture, furniture, pottery and tile, metalwork, lighting, leaded and stained glass, jewelry, textiles, basketry and the influence of Native American arts, painting and printmaking, photography, graphic arts, and book design. The ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement—a celebration of craftsmanship and the creative process; an appreciation of sound construction, pleasing proportion, grace, and simplicity; and a comfortable rusticity that sees beauty in nature and honors indigenous materials—found fertile ground in Washington and Oregon. The inspired handiwork of anonymous amateurs and significant regional artists alike yielded a remarkable variety of progressive architect-designed residences, bungalows for everyone, and all manner of artistic and practical furnishings and accessories. Beautifully illustrated with nearly 400 photographs and period graphics, including rare images published here for the first time, this groundbreaking volume is an authoritative reference, a provocative story, and an irresistible treasure trove for Arts and Crafts collectors and enthusiasts everywhere.
Native American Owned and Operated Arts and Crafts Businesses
Author: United States. Indian Arts and Crafts BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts and crafts movement
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Native American Art & Culture
Author: Brendan JanuaryPublisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781410911087
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Arts and crafts offer a window into Native American cultures, reflecting their histories, technologies, beliefs, and everyday life. Every piece of Native American art tells us something about the environment and the culture in which it was developed, so that we can see how and why people make their art. The World Art & Culture series looks at cultures around the world, using artifacts as primary sources to explain how and what we can learn about a culture through its art. From painting to sculpture, textiles to metalwork, architecture to musical instruments, the series explores a fascinating and thought-provoking variety of arts, crafts, designs, and styles. Book jacket.
Development of Native American Culture and Art
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian arts
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Native American Art in the Twentieth Century
Author: W. Jackson Rushing IIIPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136180036
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This illuminating and provocative book is the first anthology devoted to Twentieth Century Native American and First Nation art. Native American Art brings 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 Century argues forcefully for Native art's place in modern art history.
Indian Arts and Crafts
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Native American Arts and Crafts
Author: Colin F. TaylorPublisher: Smithmark Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Indian and Eskimo Organizations Marketing Native American Arts and Crafts
Author: United States. Indian Arts and Crafts BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts and crafts movement
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description