Hero, hawk, and open hand
Subtitle: American Indian art of the ancient Midwest and South
By: Richard F. Townsend, general editor ; Robert V. Sharp, editor ; with essays and contributions by Garrick Bailey ... [et al.].
Contributors: Townsend, Richard F.; Sharp, Robert V.; Bailey, Garrick Alan.; Art Institute of Chicago.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago; In Association with Yale University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Art Institute of Chicago -- Exhibitions.; Indian art -- Middle West -- Exhibitions.; Indian art -- Southern States -- Exhibitions.; Mississippian art -- Middle West -- Exhibitions.; Mississippian art -- Southern States -- Exhibitions.; Indians of North America -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: American Indian art of the ancient Midwest and South
Description: "Illustrated with hundreds of new photographs and drawings, as well as with maps, site plans, and a chronology, this book presents exciting new information on the art, architecture, and deep-seated cultural themes of the ancient Native Americans in the midwestern and southeastern United States. Highlights include sculptures with a wide range of human and animal motifs, as well as composite imaginary creatures, abstract shapes, embellished vessels, implements, and ritual objects." "The essays included here take innovative approaches, interpreting the symbolic imagery of distinct visual traditions and searching for widespread patterns of thought and worldview, some of which have survived into present-day tribal life. Such shared motifs as the "Hero," the "Hawk," and the "Open Hand" suggest a provocative and unexpected continuity of thought across time and geography in the ancient American world concerning themes of life, death, and renewal."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-279) and index.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the Art Institute of Chicago.
Table of contents: title: American landscapes, seen and unseen / Richard F. Townsend; title: Thoughts on the preservation of traditional culture : an interview with Timmy Thompson / F. Kent Reilly III; title: The archaeology of aesthetics / David W. Penney; title: Hopewell art in Hopewell places / Mark F. Seeman; title: The Newark Earthworks : monumental geometry and astronomy at a Hopewellian pilgrimage center / Bradley T. Lepper; title: Continuity and change in Mississippian civilization / Garrick Bailey; title: The Cahokia site and its people / Robert L. Hall; title: The Cahokian expression : creating court and cult / James A. Brown; title: People of earth, people of sky : visualizing the sacred in Native American art of the Mississippian period / F. Kent Reilly III; title: Marking stone, land, body, and spirit : rock art and Mississippian iconography / Carol Diaz-Granados; title: Power and the sacred : Mound C and the Etowah chiefdom / Adam King; title: Moundville art in historical and social context / Vincas P. Steponaitis and Vernon J. Knight, Jr.; title: Thoughts on the preservation of traditional culture : an interview with Joyce and Turner Bear / F. Kent Reilly III; title: Art, ritual, and chiefly warfare in the Mississippian world / David H. Dye; title: World on a string : some cosmological components of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex / George E. Lankford; title: Prehistoric art of the Central Mississippi Valley / Chester P. Walker; title: The ancient art of Caddo ceramics / Richard F. Townsend and Chester P. Walker; title: Caddo art : a personal perspective / Stacey Halfmoon; title: The Bread Dance : a Shawnee ceremony of thanks and renewal / Ruthe Blalock Jones.