Native American Art And The New York Avant Garde

Author : W. Jackson Rushing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015026926157

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Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde by W. Jackson Rushing Pdf

Avant-garde art between 1910 and 1950 is well known for its use of "primitive" imagery, often borrowed from traditional cultures in Africa and Oceania. Less recognized, however, is the use United States artists made of Native American art, myth, and ritual to craft a specifically American Modernist art. In this groundbreaking study, W. Jackson Rushing comprehensively explores the process by which Native American iconography was appropriated, transformed, and embodied in American avant-garde art of the Modernist period. Writing from the dual perspectives of cultural and art history, Rushing shows how national exhibitions of Native American art influenced such artists, critics, and patrons as Marsden Hartley, John Sloan, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Robert Henri, John Marin, Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, and especially Jackson Pollock, whose legendary drip paintings he convincingly links with the curative sand paintings of the Navajo. He traces the avant-garde adoption of Native American cultural forms to anxiety over industrialism and urbanism, post-World War I "return to roots" nationalism, the New Deal search for American strengths and values, and the notion of the "dark" Jungian unconscious current in the 1940s. Through its interdisciplinary approach, this book underscores the fact that even abstract art springs from specific cultural and political motivations and sources. Its message is especially timely, for Euro-American society is once again turning to Native American cultures for lessons on how to integrate our lives with the land, with tradition, and with the sacred.

Author : Bill Anthes
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822338661

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Native Moderns by Bill Anthes Pdf

This lavishly illustrated art history situates the work of pioneering mid-twentieth-century Native American artists within the broader canon of American modernism.

Author : Elizabeth Hutchinson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780822392095

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The Indian Craze by Elizabeth Hutchinson Pdf

In the early twentieth century, Native American baskets, blankets, and bowls could be purchased from department stores, “Indian stores,” dealers, and the U.S. government’s Indian schools. Men and women across the United States indulged in a widespread passion for collecting Native American art, which they displayed in domestic nooks called “Indian corners.” Elizabeth Hutchinson identifies this collecting as part of a larger “Indian craze” and links it to other activities such as the inclusion of Native American artifacts in art exhibitions sponsored by museums, arts and crafts societies, and World’s Fairs, and the use of indigenous handicrafts as models for non-Native artists exploring formal abstraction and emerging notions of artistic subjectivity. She argues that the Indian craze convinced policymakers that art was an aspect of “traditional” Native culture worth preserving, an attitude that continues to influence popular attitudes and federal legislation. Illustrating her argument with images culled from late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century publications, Hutchinson revises the standard history of the mainstream interest in Native American material culture as “art.” While many locate the development of this cross-cultural interest in the Southwest after the First World War, Hutchinson reveals that it began earlier and spread across the nation from west to east and from reservation to metropolis. She demonstrates that artists, teachers, and critics associated with the development of American modernism, including Arthur Wesley Dow and Gertrude Käsebier, were inspired by Native art. Native artists were also able to achieve some recognition as modern artists, as Hutchinson shows through her discussion of the Winnebago painter and educator Angel DeCora. By taking a transcultural approach, Hutchinson transforms our understanding of the role of Native Americans in modernist culture.

Author : Judith Ostrowitz
Publisher : Seattle : University of Washington ; Vancouver : UBC Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0774807539

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Privileging the Past by Judith Ostrowitz Pdf

What makes Northwest Coast Native American art authentic? And why,when most of art history is a history of the avant-garde, is traditionso deeply valued by contemporary Native American artists and theirpatrons? In Privileging the Past Judith Ostrowitz approachesthese questions through a careful consideration of replicas,reproductions, and creative translations of past forms of NorthwestCoast dances, ceremonies, masks, painted screens, and houses. Ostrowitzexamines several different art forms -- two very differentarchitectural constructions, a dance performance, and modern sculpturesand dance paraphernalia -- considering their relations to arts of thepast. Ostrowitz draws on an extensive body of interviews she conductedwith tribal leaders, artists, and artisans long known and highlyrespected in both Native and non-Native venues. Throughout the book, wehear their voices -- members of the Alfred, Cranmer, Hunt, Tallio andWebster families, and many other individuals -- as they relate theirresponses to the modern adaptation of their cultural heritage. Privileging the Past explores intellectual issues raised bypostmodern theory, supported by detailed studies of projects that willinterest a boad audience of students, historians, museum-goers, andthose intrigued by Native American art and cultural history.

Author : W. Jackson Rushing III
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136180033

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Native American Art in the Twentieth Century by W. Jackson Rushing III Pdf

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.

Author : Janet Catherine Berlo
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 0295972025

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The Early Years of Native American Art History by Janet Catherine Berlo Pdf

This collection of essays deals with the development of Native American art history as a discipline rather than with particular art works or artists. It focuses on the early anthropologists, museum curators, dealers, and collectors, and on the multiple levels of understanding and misunderstanding, a

Author : Gaylord Torrence,Ned Blackhawk,Sylvia Yount
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Jed Rasula
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780192570727

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Acrobatic Modernism from the Avant-Garde to Prehistory by Jed Rasula Pdf

This is a book about artistic modernism contending with the historical transfigurations of modernity. As a conscientious engagement with modernity's restructuring of the lifeworld, the modernist avant-garde raised the stakes of this engagement to programmatic explicitness. But even beyond the vanguard, the global phenomenon of jazz combined somatic assault with sensory tutelage. Jazz, like the new technologies of modernity, re-calibrated sensory ratios. The criterion of the new as self-making also extended to names: pseudonyms and heteronyms. The protocols of modernism solicited a pragmatic arousal of bodily sensation as artistic resource, validating an acrobatic sensibility ranging from slapstick and laughter to the pathos of bereavement. Expressivity trumped representation. The artwork was a diagram of perception, not a mimetic rendering. For artists, the historical pressures of altered perception provoked new models, and Ezra Pound's slogan 'Make It New' became the generic rallying cry of renovation. The paradigmatic stance of the avant-garde was established by Futurism, but the discovery of prehistoric art added another provocation to artists. Paleolithic caves validated the spirit of all-over composition, unframed and dynamic. Geometric abstraction, Constructivism and Purism, and Surrealism were all in quest of a new mythology. Making it new yielded a new pathos in the sensation of radical discrepancy between futurist striving and remotest antiquity. The Paleolithic cave and the USSR emitted comparable siren calls on behalf of the remote past and the desired future. As such, the present was suffused with the pathos of being neither, but subject to both.

Author : American Indian Artists Inc. (AMERINDA)-Staff,David Bunn Martine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 098985650X

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The Old Becomes the New by American Indian Artists Inc. (AMERINDA)-Staff,David Bunn Martine Pdf

The Old Becomes the New: New York Movement in Contemporary Native Art and the New York School, an historical survey exhibition of twenty three contemporary Native American artists living and working in New York City (1943-2013) together with five highly seminal artists of the New York School. This is the first exhibition revealing the historical relationship between the New York School and the evolution of Native modernism. The exhibition highlights a comprehensive selection of distinguished Native American artists, all members of the New York Contemporary Native American Arts Movement; one of the lesser known Native Arts movements in the United States outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, that is urban based. A select few of these artists were directly influenced by abstract expressionism, the New York School and, to a lesser extent, Pop art. Succeeding generations of Native artists continued some of the visual languages and sensibilities of their progenitors. Some used abstract-expressionist language and modernist language, as well as other visual references particular to their own traditions or self-expression. They produced work that was grandly diverse, sometimes reflecting the urban environment in which they found themselves. Some of the New York School artists in the show, who were themselves influenced by traditional Native American design aesthetic; who then influenced contemporary Native artists, in some cases personally are Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Theodoros Stamos and Esteban Vicente. Although he always proudly shared his Native heritage, The Rauschenberg Foundation has confirmed that this is the first ?Contemporary Native? show where the late Mr. Rauschenberg's work has been included.

Author : Norman K Denzin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315426839

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Indians in Color by Norman K Denzin Pdf

In Indians in Color, noted cultural critic Norman K. Denzin addresses the acute differences in the treatment of artwork about Native America created by European-trained artists compared to those by Native artists. In his fourth volume exploring race and culture in the New West, Denzin zeroes in on painting movements in Taos, New Mexico over the past century. Part performance text, part art history, part cultural criticism, part autoethnography, he once again demonstrates the power of visual media to reify or resist racial and cultural stereotypes, moving us toward a more nuanced view of contemporary Native American life. In this book, Denzin-contrasts the aggrandizement by collectors and museums of the art created by the early 20th century Taos Society of Artists under railroad sponsorship with that of indigenous Pueblo painters;-shows how these tensions between mainstream and Native art remains today; and-introduces a radical postmodern artistic aesthetic of contemporary Native artists that challenges notions of the “noble savage.”

Author : Zena Pearlstone Mathews,Zena Pearlstone
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : John Wallace Nunley,St. Louis Art Museum,Janet Catherine Berlo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Amérique du Nord
ISBN : UCSC:32106010389382

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Native North American Art by John Wallace Nunley,St. Louis Art Museum,Janet Catherine Berlo Pdf

Author : Jessica L. Horton
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780822372790

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Art for an Undivided Earth by Jessica L. Horton Pdf

In Art for an Undivided Earth Jessica L. Horton reveals how the spatial philosophies underlying the American Indian Movement (AIM) were refigured by a generation of artists searching for new places to stand. Upending the assumption that Jimmie Durham, James Luna, Kay WalkingStick, Robert Houle, and others were primarily concerned with identity politics, she joins them in remapping the coordinates of a widely shared yet deeply contested modernity that is defined in great part by the colonization of the Americas. She follows their installations, performances, and paintings across the ocean and back in time, as they retrace the paths of Native diplomats, scholars, performers, and objects in Europe after 1492. Along the way, Horton intervenes in a range of theories about global modernisms, Native American sovereignty, racial difference, archival logic, artistic itinerancy, and new materialisms. Writing in creative dialogue with contemporary artists, she builds a picture of a spatially, temporally, and materially interconnected world—an undivided earth.

Author : John Davis,Jennifer A. Greenhill,Jason D. LaFountain
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Erika Doss
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780191587740

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Twentieth-Century American Art by Erika Doss Pdf

Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, and Laurie Anderson are just some of the major American artists of the twentieth century. From the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to the 2000 Whitney Biennial, a rapid succession of art movements and different styles reflected the extreme changes in American culture and society, as well as America's position within the international art world. This exciting new look at twentieth century American art explores the relationships between American art, museums, and audiences in the century that came to be called the 'American century'. Extending beyond New York, it covers the emergence of Feminist art in Los Angeles in the 1970s; the Black art movement; the expansion of galleries and art schools; and the highly political public controversies surrounding arts funding. All the key movements are fully discussed, including early American Modernism, the New Negro movement, Regionalism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Neo-Expressionism.