Title: Dynamic symmetry and holistic asymmetry in Navajo and Western art and cosmology
First published: 1995
Description: Explores the relationship between the cultural roots of the Navajo and the aesthetic forms and styles in their sandpainting, weaving, and silverwork. Finds in the work a symmetry of the whole derived from the fundamentally asymmetrical Holy Pair embodied in the Changing Woman, and shows how that pattern is observable in other modern art and science.
Subjects: Holism, Navajo language, Symmetry (Art), Navajo art, Navajo cosmology, Navajo philosophy, Indian art, north america, Indian philosophy, north america, Proportion (art)
LC classification: E99.N3 W675 1995