Native art of the Northwest Coast
Subtitle: a history of changing ideas
By: edited by Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer, and Ḳi-ḳe-in
Contributors: Ḳi-ḳe-in, 1948- editor
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1081
ISBN-13: 9780774820509; 9780774820493
Subjects: Social life and customs; Indian art; Indians of North America; History
Other titles: History of changing ideas
Description: This remarkable volume, many years in the making, records and scrutinizes definitions of Northwest Coast Native art and its boundaries. A work of critical historiography, it makes accessible for the first time in one place a broad selection of more than 250 years of writing on Northwest Coast "art." Organized thematically, its excerpted texts are from both published and unpublished sources, some not previously available in English. They cover such complex topics as the clash between oral and written knowledge, transcultural entanglement, the influence of surrealist thinking, and the long history of the deployment of Northwest Coast Native art for nationalist purposes. The selections are preceded by thought-provoking introductions that give historical context to the diverse intellectual traditions that have influenced, stimulated, and opposed each other - publisher's website.
Notes: "Most chapters consist of an introductory essay followed by excerpts from the literature"--Page xxxv.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction :; title: The idea of northwest coast native art  -- Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer, and Ḳi-ḳe-in; title: Interpreting cultural symbols of the People from the Shore  -- Daisy Sewid-Smith; title: Ḥilth Hiitinkis : from the beach  -- Ḳi-ḳe-in; title: Haida cosmic  -- Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas; title: From explorers to ethnographers, 1770-1870  -- Ira Jacknis; title: Thresholds of meaning : voice, time, and epistemology in the archaeological consideration of Northwest Coast art  -- Andrew Martindale; title: Objects and knowledge : early accounts from ethnographers and their written records and collecting practices, ca. 1880-1930  -- Andrea Laforet; title: "That which was most important" : Louis Shotridge on Crest art and clan history  -- Judith Berman; title: Anthropology of art : shifting paradigms and practices, 1870s-1950  -- Bruce Granville Miller; title: Going by the book : missionary perspectives  -- John Barker; title: The dark years  -- Gloria Cranmer Webster; title: Surrealists and the New York avant-garde, 1920-60  -- Marie Mauzé; title: Northwest Coast art and Canadian national identity, 1900-50  -- Leslie Dawn; title: Art/craft in the early twentieth century  -- Scott Watson; title: Welfare politics, late salvage, and indigenous (in)visibility, 1930-60  -- Ronald W. Hawker; title: Form first, function follows : the use of formal analysis in Northwest Coast art history  -- Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse; title: Democratization and Northwest Coast art in the modern period : Native emissaries, non-native connoisseurship, and consumption  -- Judith Ostrowitz; title: History and critique of the "renaissance" discourse  -- Aaron Glass; title: Starting from the beginning  -- Marianne Nicolson; title: Shifting theory, shifting publics : the anthropology of Northwest Coast art in the postwar era  -- Alice Marie Campbell; title: Value added : the Northwest Coast art market since 1965  -- Karen Duffek; title: "Where mere words failed" : Northwest Coast art and law  -- Douglas S. White; title: Art for whose sake?  -- Ḳi-ḳe-in; title: "Fighting with property" : the double-edged character of ownership  -- Jennifer Kramer; title: Museums and Northwest Coast art  -- Aldona Jonaitis; title: Collaborations : a historical perspective  -- Martha Black; title: Pushing boundaries, defying categories : Aboriginal media production on the Northwest Coast  -- Kristin L. Dowell; title: Art claims in the age of Delgamuukw  -- Charlotte Townsend-Gault; title: Stop listening to our ancestors  -- Paul Chaat Smith; title: NWC on the up- load : surfing for Northwest Coast art  -- Dana Claxton; title: The material and the immaterial across borders -- Charlotte Townsend-Gault.