Title: Native North American art /
Authors: Berlo, Janet Catherine; Phillips, Ruth B. 1945-; Phillips, Ruth B. 1945-
Year: 2015
Subjects: Indian art North America; Antiquities; Indian art; North America Antiquities; North America
Abstract: "This lively introductory survey of indigenous North American arts from ancient times to the present explores both the shared themes and imagery found across the continent and the distinctive traditions of each region. Focusing on the richness of artwork created in the US and Canada, Native North American Art, Second Edition, discusses 3,000 years of architecture, wood and rock carvings, basketry, dance masks, clothing and more. The expanded text discusses twentieth- and twenty-first-century arts in all media including works by James Luna, Kent Monkman, Nadia Myre, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Will Wilson, and many more. Authors Berlo and Phillips incorporate new research and scholarship, examining such issues as art and ethics, gender, representation, and the colonial encounter. By bringing into one conversation the seemingly separate realms of the sacred and the secular, the political and the domestic, and the ceremonial and the commercial, Native North American Art shows how visual arts not only maintain the integrity of spiritual and social systems within Native North American societies, but have long been part of a cross-cultural experience as well."--Back cover.
Contents: 1. An Introduction to the Indigenous Arts of North America -- Art history and Native Art: The Challenge of Inclusion -- Colonial Legacies -- Spiritual Practices and the Making of Art -- Social Practices and the Making of Art -- 2. The Southwest -- The Southwest as a Region -- The Ancient World: Anasazi, Mimbres, Hohokam -- From Late Precontact to the Colonial Era to the Modern Pueblos -- Navajo and Apache Arts -- 3. The East -- The East as a Region -- The Southeast: The Cataclysm of Contact -- The Northeast and the Great Lakes -- 4. The West -- The West as a Region -- Art of the Great Plains -- The Intermontaine Region-An Artistic Crossroads -- The Far West: Arts of California and the Great Basin -- 5. The North -- The North as a Region -- Arts of the Boreal Forests -- The Arctic -- Historic and Contemporary Arts of the Arctic -- Toward the Twenty-First Century in the North -- 6. The Northwest Coast -- The Northwest Coast as a Region -- The Development of Styles: Local Variations and Regional Continuities Across Time -- Contexts for Art: Power, Status, and Cross-Cultural Exchange -- Northwest Coast Art Since the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- 7. Native Art 1900-1980: Moderns and Modernists -- The Multiplicity of Modernisms -- Moderns and Modernists at the Mid-Century -- Artists and Activists in Canada: The 1970s and 1980s -- 8. Native Cosmopolitanisms: 1980 and Beyond -- The 1980s and the Rise of a Contemporary Native Art Movement -- Contemporary Art: Media, Expressive Modes, Artistic Choices -- Preeminent Issues in Native Art Since 1980 -- Conclusion: "Celebrate 40,000 Years of American Art" - But Be Vigilant.