Powerful Images
Subtitle: Portrayals of Native America
Contributors: Dave Warren (Introduction)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: April 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780295976976
Subjects: American - Native American; Subjects & Themes - General; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; Exhibition Catalogs; Art; Art & Art Instruction
Description: Despite the diversity of North American native cultures, images in the popular imagination often are generalized and stereotyped. These images have been repeated, layer upon layer, in political, historical, and commercial contexts, resulting in blurred perceptions of Native American peoples. Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America looks at the ways in which Indians have been portrayed by themselves and others from the early 1800s to the present.

Paintings, sculptures, traditional native arts, and popular culture objects - neon signs, toys, automobiles, cigar boxes - are used to both reveal and challenge popular assumptions about native North Americans.