Indian Art Of The Americas At The Art Institute Of Chicago

Author : Richard F. Townsend
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300214833

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Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago by Richard F. Townsend Pdf

A stunning survey of the indigenous art, architecture, and spiritual beliefs of the Americas, from the Precolumbian era to the 20th century This landmark publication catalogues the Art Institute of Chicago’s outstanding collection of Indian art of the Americas, one of the foremost of its kind in the United States. Showcasing a host of previously unpublished objects dating from the Precolumbian era to the 20th century, the book marks the first time these holdings have been comprehensively documented. Richard Townsend and Elizabeth Pope weave an overarching narrative that ranges from the Midwestern United States to the Yucatán Peninsula to the heart of South America. While exploring artists’ myriad economic, historical, linguistic, and social backgrounds, the authors demonstrate that they shared both a deep, underlying cosmological view and the desire to secure their communities’ prosperity by affirming connections to the sacred forces of the natural world. The critical essays focus on topics that bridge traditions across North, Central, and South America, including materials, methods of manufacture, the diversity of stylistic features, and the iconography and functions of various objects. Gorgeously illustrated in color with more than 500 vibrant images, this handsome catalogue serves as the definitive survey of an unparalleled collection.

Author : Beverly Gordon,Melanie Herzog
Publisher : Chazen Museum of Art
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : 0932900186

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American Indian Art by Beverly Gordon,Melanie Herzog Pdf

Even the earliest European explorers to the Americas collected objects made by native people. The ongoing fascination with the artistic and cultural expressions of American Indian people is documented historically, along with a close look at seven midwestern collections. The wide array of art encompassed is handsomely illustrated, and includes pottery, weavings, basketry, beadwork, and carvings. Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Author : Zena Pearlstone
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art, Comparative
ISBN : 9780870993343

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Color and Shape in American Indian Art by Zena Pearlstone Pdf

"The current exhibition illustrates the gradual move from traditional design and restrained use of color to eclectic but exuberant design and hgih color during the period from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century."--Page 3.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1249898247

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Indian Art of the Americas by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan C. Power
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820327662

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Art of the Cherokee by Susan C. Power Pdf

"In addition to tracing the development of Cherokee art, Power reveals the wide range of geographical locales from which Cherokee art has originated. These places include the Cherokee's tribal homeland in the southeast, the tribe's areas of resettlement in the West, and abodes in the United States and beyond to which individuals subsequently moved. Intimately connected to the time and place of its creation, Cherokee art changed along with Cherokee social, political, and economic circumstances. The entry of European explorers into the Southeast, the Trail of Tears, the American Civil War, and the signing of treaties with the U.S. government are among the transforming events in Cherokee art history that Power discusses."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Gaylord Torrence,Ned Blackhawk,Sylvia Yount
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588396624

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Art of Native America by Gaylord Torrence,Ned Blackhawk,Sylvia Yount Pdf

This landmark publication reevaluates historical Native American art as a crucial but under-examined component of American art history. The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection, a transformative promised gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, includes masterworks from more than fifty cultures across North America. The works highlighted in this volume span centuries, from before contact with European settlers to the early twentieth century. In this beautifully illustrated volume, featuring all new photography, the innovative visions of known and unknown makers are presented in a wide variety of forms, from painting, sculpture, and drawing to regalia, ceramics, and baskets. The book provides key insights into the art, culture, and daily life of culturally distinct Indigenous peoples along with critical and popular perceptions over time, revealing that to engage Native art is to reconsider the very meaning of America. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}

Author : Mary Ellen Miller
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500775035

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Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec (Sixth) (World of Art) by Mary Ellen Miller Pdf

Mary Ellen Miller’s rich visual and scholarly survey of pre-Hispanic art and architecture, including the most recent archaeological finds. Expanded and revised in its sixth edition, The Art of Mesoamerica surveys the artistic achievements of the high pre-Hispanic civilizations of Central America—Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Aztec—as well as those of their lesser-known contemporaries. Providing an in-depth examination of central works, this book guides readers through the most iconic palaces, pyramids, sculptures, and paintings. From the Olmec colossal head 5 recovered from San Lorenzo to the Aztec calendar stone found in Mexico City’s Zocalo in 1790, this book reveals the complexity and innovation behind the art and architecture produced in pre-Hispanic civilizations. This new edition incorporates fifty new lavish color images and extensive updates based on the latest research and dozens of recent discoveries, particularly in Maya art, where excavations at Teotihuacan, the largest city of Mesoamerica, and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztecs, have yielded new sculptures.

Author : James Rondeau
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300225723

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Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago by James Rondeau Pdf

An updated selection of key paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago, featuring works from around the globe and dating from ancient Egypt to the present day The Art Institute of Chicago, one of the most beloved and important museums in the world, houses an extraordinary collection of objects from diverse places, cultures, and time periods. This beautiful catalogue opens the doors of the museum to readers, presenting an expansive selection of painted works from around the globe, introduced insightfully by James Rondeau, president and director of the Art Institute. New color photography accompanies entries written by a team of curators, art historians, and educators, which put the works into context. The book showcases a dazzling range of paintings, including an Egyptian funeral portrait, an ancient Mexican wall mural, Chinese scroll paintings, Japanese painted screens, and works by artists such as Caillebotte, Cassatt, El Greco, Gauguin, Homer, Hopper, Johns, Lichtenstein, Matisse, Mitsuoki, Monet, Morisot, Motley, O'Keeffe, Picasso, Pollock, Rembrandt, Richter, Rubens, Sargent, Seurat, Tiepolo, Turner, Van Gogh, Warhol, Whistler, and Wood; contemporary artists featured include Kerry James Marshall, Wanda Pimentel, and Kazuo Shiraga.

Author : Matthew Robb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520296558

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Teotihuacan by Matthew Robb Pdf

Founded in the first century BCE near a set of natural springs in an otherwise dry northeastern corner of the Valley of Mexico, the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan was on a symbolic level a city of elements. With a multiethnic population of perhaps one hundred thousand, at its peak in 400 CE, it was the cultural, political, economic, and religious center of ancient Mesoamerica. A devastating fire in the city center led to a rapid decline after the middle of the sixth century, but Teotihuacan was never completely abandoned or forgotten; the Aztecs revered the city and its monuments, giving many of them the names we still use today. Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire examines new discoveries from the three main pyramids at the site—the Sun Pyramid, the Moon Pyramid, and, at the center of the Ciudadela complex, the Feathered Serpent Pyramid—which have fundamentally changed our understanding of the city’s history. With illustrations of the major objects from Mexico City’s Museo Nacional de Antropología and from the museums and storage facilities of the Zona de Monumentos Arqueológicos de Teotihuacan, along with selected works from US and European collections, the catalogue examines these cultural artifacts to understand the roles that offerings of objects and programs of monumental sculpture and murals throughout the city played in the lives of Teotihuacan’s citizens. Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Exhibition dates: de Young, San Francisco, September 30, 2017–February 11, 2018 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), March–June 2018

Author : John Davis,Jennifer A. Greenhill,Jason D. LaFountain
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781118542491

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A Companion to American Art by John Davis,Jennifer A. Greenhill,Jason D. LaFountain Pdf

A Companion to American Art presents 35newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars that explore themethodology, historiography, and current state of the field ofAmerican art history. Features contributions from a balance of established andemerging scholars, art and architectural historians, and otherspecialists Includes several paired essays to emphasize dialogue and debatebetween scholars on important contemporary issues in American arthistory Examines topics such as the methodological stakes in thewriting of American art history, changing ideas about whatconstitutes “Americanness,” and the relationship of artto public culture Offers a fascinating portrait of the evolution and currentstate of the field of American art history and suggests futuredirections of scholarship

Author : Delia Solomons
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271094083

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Cold War in the White Cube by Delia Solomons Pdf

In 1959, the very year the Cuban Revolution amplified Cold War tensions in the Americas, museumgoers in the United States witnessed a sudden surge in major exhibitions of Latin American art. Surveying the 1960s boom of such exhibits, this book documents how art produced in regions considered susceptible to communist influence was staged on U.S. soil for U.S. audiences. Held in high-profile venues such as the Guggenheim Museum, the Walker Art Center, MoMA, and the Art Institute of Chicago, the exhibitions of the 1960s Latin American art boom did not define a single stylistic trend or the art of a single nation but rather attempted to frame Latin America as a unified whole for U.S. audiences. Delia Solomons calls attention to disruptive artworks that rebelled against the curatorial frames purporting to hold them and reveals these exhibitions to be complex contact zones in which competing voices collided. Ultimately, through multiple means—including choosing to exclude artworks with readily decipherable political messages and evading references to contemporary inter-American frictions—the U.S. curators who organized these shows crafted projections of Pan-American partnership and harmony, with the United States as leader, interpreter, and good neighbor, during an era of brutal U.S. interference across the Americas. Theoretically sophisticated and highly original, this survey of Cold War–era Latin American art exhibits sheds light on the midcentury history of major U.S. art museums and makes an important contribution to the fields of museum studies, art history, and Latin American modernist art.

Author : Janet Catherine Berlo,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Diker, Charles
ISBN : 9780870998577

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Native Paths by Janet Catherine Berlo,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

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 : Zena Pearlstone Mathews,Zena Pearlstone
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Indian art
ISBN : 9780870993633

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Symbol and Substance in American Indian Art by Zena Pearlstone Mathews,Zena Pearlstone Pdf

Author : Fenimore Art Museum (Cooperstown, N.Y.)
Publisher : Cooperstown, N.Y. : Fenimore Art Museum
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028584923

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Art of the North American Indians by Fenimore Art Museum (Cooperstown, N.Y.) Pdf

This text is a comprehensive examination of Native American art, containing introductions for each of the eight culture areas as well as 34 regional sections. The majority of works covered in the book are from the historic period - some as early as 500 BC - but contemporary pieces are also covered.

Author : National Museum of the American Indian
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061547317

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Infinity of Nations by National Museum of the American Indian Pdf

The National Museum of the American Indian is one of the world's great conservators of cultural heritage, and its collections hold more than 800,000 objects spanning 13,000 years of history of the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, from Tierra del Fuego in the south to the Arctic in the north. Drawing on new insights from archaeology, history, and art history, Infinity of Nations uses culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant objects as a point of entry to understanding the people who created them. Following an introduction on the power of objects to engage our imagination, each chapter presents an overview of a region of the Americas and its cultural complexities, written by a noted specialist on that region. Community knowledge-keepers and an impressive new generation of Native scholars contribute highlights on objects that represent important ideas or that capture moments of social change. Together these writers create an extraordinary mosaic. What emerges is a portrait of a complex and dynamic world shaped from its earliest history by contact and exchange among peoples. Illustrated with more than 200 strikingly beautiful photographs published here for the first time, Infinity of Nations opens new avenues that extend well beyond those of conventional cultural studies. Authoritative and accessible, here is an important resource for anyone interested in learning about Native cultures of the Americas.