Native North American Art by Ruth Phillips
This is a survey of native North American art history which fully incorporates substantive research and scholarship, and examines such issues as gender, representation, the colonial encounter and contemporary arts. By encompassing both the sacred and secular, political and domestic, the ceremonial and commercial, it shows the importance of the visual arts in maintaining the integrity of spiritual, social, political and economic systems within native North American societies. The book explores the indigenous arts of the US and Canada from the early pre-contact period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across a diverse range of regions. The richness of native American art is emphasized through discussions of basketry, wood and rock carvings, dance masks and beadwork, alongside the contemporary vitality of paintings and installations by modern artists such as Robert Davidson, Emmi Whitehorse and Alex Janvier.
Janet Catherine Berlo, a professor of art history at the University of Rochester who specializes in Native American art, is also a creative writer and quilter. Her many books include Wild By Design: Two Hundred Years of Innovation and Artistry in American Quilts, Spirit Beings and Sun Dancers: Black Hawk's Vision of the Lakota World, and Native North American Art (with coauthor Ruth Phillips).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192842664 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192842668 |
| Title | Native North American Art |
| Author | Ruth Phillips |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1998-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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