Privileging the past
Subtitle: reconstructing history in Northwest coast art
By: Judith Ostrowitz ; foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn.
Publisher: University of Washington Press; UBC Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Seattle; Vancouver, [BC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Indian arts -- Northwest Coast of North America.
Description: "What makes Northwest Coast Native American art authentic? And why, when most of art history is a history of the avant-garde, is tradition so deeply valued by contemporary Native American artists and their patrons? In Privileging the Past Judith Ostrowitz approaches these questions through a careful consideration of replicas, reproductions, and creative translations of past forms of Northwest Coast dances, ceremonies, masks, painted screens, and houses."--BOOK JACKET.

"Privileging the Past explores intellectual issues raised by postmodern theory, supported by detailed studies of projects that will interest a broad audience of students, historians, museum-goers, and those intrigued by Native American art and cultural history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-189) and index.