Native American Collection

Author : Margaret Denise Dubin
Publisher : Albuquerque, N. M. : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0826321747

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Native America Collected by Margaret Denise Dubin Pdf

"I argue for a history of Native American art that is politically informed," Margaret Dubin writes, "and for a criticism of contemporary Native American fine arts that is historically founded." Integrating ethnography, discourse analysis, and social theory in a careful mapping of the Native American art world, this insightful new study explores the landscape of 'intercultural spaces' -- the physical and philosophical arenas in which art collectors, anthropologists, artists, historians, curators, and critics struggle to control the movement and meaning of art objects created by Native Americans. Dubin examines the ideas and interactions involved in contemporary collecting, in particular, to understand how marketplace demands have homogenised Western perceptions of 'authentic' Native American art. In doing so, she reveals the power relations of an art world in which Native American artists work within and against a larger system that seeks to control people by manipulating objects.

Author : Gaylord Torrence,Ned Blackhawk,Sylvia Yount
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Thomas Harriot
Publisher : Manchester [England] : Photolithographed for the Holbein Society, by A. Brothers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN : OSU:32435068438415

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A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia by Thomas Harriot Pdf

Author : Thomas Harriot
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486210926

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A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia by Thomas Harriot Pdf

Great classic of Americana, fascinating for European image of America. 1590 edition with 28 engravings by de Bry (from John White) of Indian villages, activities, dress, more.

Author : Pitt Rivers Museum,Linda Mowat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 0902793306

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Catalogue of the Native American Collections by Pitt Rivers Museum,Linda Mowat Pdf

Author : Matt Dembicki
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781938486715

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Trickster by Matt Dembicki Pdf

2010 Maverick Award winner, 2011 Aesop Prize Winner – Children's folklore section, and a 2011 Eisner Award Nominee. All cultures have tales of the trickster – a crafty creature or being who uses cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. He disrupts the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes himself. In Native American traditions, the trickster takes many forms, from coyote or rabbit to raccoon or raven. The first graphic anthology of Native American trickster tales, Trickster brings together Native American folklore and the world of comics. In Trickster, 24 Native storytellers were paired with 24 comic artists, telling cultural tales from across America. Ranging from serious and dramatic to funny and sometimes downright fiendish, these tales bring tricksters back into popular culture.

Author : Shepard Krech III
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781588344144

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Collecting Native America, 1870-1960 by Shepard Krech III Pdf

Between the 1870s and 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups. Setting out to preserve what they thought was a vanishing culture, they amassed ethnographic and archaeological collections amounting to well over one million objects and founded museums throughout North America that were meant to educate the public about American Indian skills, practices, and beliefs. In Collecting Native America contributors examine the motivations, intentions, and actions of eleven collectors who devoted substantial parts of their lives and fortunes to acquiring American Indian objects and founding museums. They describe obsessive hobbyists such as George Heye, who, beginning with the purchase of a lice-ridden shirt, built a collection that—still unsurpassed in richness, diversity, and size—today forms the core of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Sheldon Jackson, a Presbyterian missionary in Alaska, collected and displayed artifacts as a means of converting Native peoples to Christianity. Clara Endicott Sears used sometimes invented displays and ceremonies at her Indian Museum near Boston to emphasize Native American spirituality. The contributors chart the collectors' diverse attitudes towards Native peoples, showing how their limited contact with American Indian groups resulted in museums that revealed more about assumptions of the wider society than about the cultures being described.

Author : David W. Penney,Detroit Institute of Arts,Richard A. Pohrt
Publisher : Detroit Inst of Arts
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0295973188

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Art of the American Indian Frontier by David W. Penney,Detroit Institute of Arts,Richard A. Pohrt Pdf

Art of the American Indian Frontier examines an incomparable collection of nineteenth-century Native American art from the North American Woodlands, Prairie, and Plains. The collection resulted from the efforts of Milford G. Chandler and Richard A. Pohrt, whose early childhood fascination with the Indian frontier past evolved into a deep and comprehensive interest in Native American ceremonies, beliefs, and art. Though neither was wealthy or enjoyed the sponsorship of a museum, they traveled extensively early in the twentieth century, buying or trading for objects they could not resist. This volume presents the Detroit Institute of Art's Chandler-Pohrt collection with detailed documentation and commentary. Clothing and accessories of porcupine quill and buckskin, woven textiles, bags, beadwork, necklaces, rawhide paintings, smoking pipes, tools, vessels and utensils, pictographs, and visionary paintings are portrayed in 220 stunning color plates. Complementing the illustrations are essays dealing with historical context, ethnographic issues, and the lives and philosophies of the collectors.

Author : Janet Catherine Berlo
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Matt Dembicki
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1682752739

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Trickster by Matt Dembicki Pdf

In the original graphic anthology of Native American trickster tales, Trickster brings together Native American folklore and the world of comics. This inspired collaboration pairs twenty-four native storytellers with twenty-four accomplished artists, telling cultural tales from across North America.

Author : National Museum of the American Indian
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,5 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.

Author : George Hubbard Pepper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015034612906

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The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation by George Hubbard Pepper Pdf

Author : Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 0806143045

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The James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection by Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Pdf

One of the most important collections of modern Native American art assembled by one individual, the James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection is an encyclopedic compilation of easel paintings and three-dimensional works. Showcased in this stunning catalogue, the collection comprises nearly four thousand items, including drawings, sculptures, prints, kachinas, jewelry, ceramics, rattles, baskets, and textiles. James T. Bialac began collecting art in the 1950s, when he was a student at the University of Arizona School of Law. It was then that he purchased the first of what would develop into a collection of more than one thousand kachina dolls. In 1964 he acquired his first painting, Robert Chee's Moccasin Game, and he went on to expand his collection to reflect the diversity of Native American art forms. Inspired by his connections with other collectors, Bialac learned the importance of documenting, cataloging, and preserving his collection. In 2010 he bequeathed the collection to the University of Oklahoma, where the art will be displayed at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, as well as at other locations, including Bialac's native Arizona. The Bialac Collection represents indigenous cultures across North America, especially the Pueblos of the Southwest, Navajos, Hopis, and many of the tribes of the Great Plains. It encompasses such important and innovative artists as Fred Kabotie, Alfonso Roybal, Fritz Scholder, Joe Hilario Herrera, Allan Houser, Jerome Tiger, Tonita Peña, Helen Hardin, Pablita Velarde, George Morrison, Walter Richard "Dick" West, and Patrick DesJarlait, all of whose work is featured in this volume. Along with its rich sampling of works from the Bialac Collection, this catalogue offers informative essays by art historians, who draw on their areas of expertise to explain the significance of the artwork. The volume also features a foreword by David L. Boren, President of the University of Oklahoma, a preface by Ghislain d'Humières, Director of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, and an introduction by Mary Jo Watson, Director of the School of Art and Art History. Published in cooperation with the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma

Author : Fenimore Art Museum (Cooperstown, N.Y.)
Publisher : Cooperstown, N.Y. : Fenimore Art Museum
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Pieter Hovens,Bruce Bernstein
Publisher : Zkf Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Indian art
ISBN : 3981162080

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North American Indian Art by Pieter Hovens,Bruce Bernstein Pdf

North American Indian Art: Masterpieces and Museum Collections from the Netherlands showcases 114 oustanding examples of Native art and heritage from the Canadian subarctic forests to the American Southwest preserved in Dutch museums. Many of these rare material documents collected between the seventeenth and the twenty-first century have never been published before. They are here stunningly presented as individual works of art and placed into their cultural and historical contexts by forty-two leading American, Canadian, and European experts who weave together the historical narrative of each object's acquisition with current Native and scholarly interpretations of their use and meaning. In his introductory essay Pieter Hovens provides a detailed account of the history of Dutch interests in North American Indian cultures, from the seventeenth-century colonial experience in New Netherland through the collecting activities of public institutions and private connoisseurs to academic scholarship and social engagement. All of these interests have contributed to the wealth and range of objects featured here as well as to the public perception of Native Americans in the Netherlands. This book offers for the first time an overview of all institutional collections of Native North American arts and cultures in a single European country. It is the privilege of the Dutch museums to share these heritage collections with the widest audience possible.