Don Smith, or Lelooska, (1933-1996) was well-known in the Pacific Northwest as a Native American artist and storyteller. Of 'mixed-blood' Cherokee heritage, he was adopted as an adult by the prestigious Kwakiutl Sewid clan and had relationships with elders from a wide range of tribal backgrounds. Initially producing curio items for sale to ...
John Hoover: Art and Life, featuring color reproductions of works from museums and private collections all over the world, is a retrospective look at the life and career of one of Alaska's most significant artists. John Hoover grew up in Cordova, Alaska, in an era when it was an international city and one of the richest ports in the West. Born in ...
Combining photography with collected observations, this book documents a group of Native American artists examining the relationship between native and contemporary and traditional and innovative artistic endeavors. On view at the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, October 1994.
Fresh, informative, and provocative, this collection of interviews showcases twelve leading Native artists and activists who have challenged and helped reshape prevailing expectations about Native cultures and identities during the late twentieth century: writers Sherman Alexie and James Welch, singer-songwriter and educator Buffy Sainte-Marie, ...
Thomas is a black, part Native-American writer of graphic novels, and Cassandra is an arty, wealthy, and very blonde art dealer. They meet at an auction at Sotheby's and fall in love, but their relationship is complicated not only by their differences but by the kidnapping of Cassandra's nephew.
The magnificent ceramics shown in this book leave us in no doubt that we are seeing one-of-a-kind-art, not merely pretty 'ethnic artefacts'. Major south-western artists whose works are avidly sought by museums and knowledgeable collectors the world over are represented with full-colour photographs and informative commentary. Most of the works ...
This beautiful art book combines the historical memoir of a beloved artist with her art, featuring 28 paintings in full colour, some previously unpublished and rarely seen. The author spent many hours with Pablita Velarde recording her stories as first person reminiscences, which the artist has fully endorsed. These anecdotes go back to Pablita's ...
From naturalism to abstract, realism to surrealism, traditional to popular, the 60 Native American artists in this reference work come from a variety of esthetic backgrounds. These contemporary painters reflect the wide range of art produced by Native Americans; many have drawn on their tribal culture for inspiration and subject matter, but others ...
Native artists work in diverse media, some of which are considered art (sculpture, painting, photography), while others have been considered craft (works on cloth, basketry, ceramics). Some artists feel strongly about working from a position as a Native artist, while others prefer to produce art not connected to a particular cultural tradition. ...
This series introduces the general reader to various figures in Native American history from the 17th to the 20th century. The volumes explore the lives and accomplishments of a range of native people who overcame obstacles to become notable in their chosen fields of endeavour, including the arts and literature, politics, religion and medicine. ...
Native North American Artists features craftspeople in the visual arts, including painting, architecture, basketry, beadwork, carving, drawing, installation, jewelry, masks, photography, pottery, printmaking, sculpture, performance art, mixed media and textiles.
What is Indian art? There have been many attempts to define it, but the so-called Santa Fe style of the 1930s - placid, two-dimensional depictions of traditional scenes - set the standard by which subsequent art by Native Americans would be judged. Art that radically challenged the stereotype - the work of Joe Herrera, Fritz Scholder, and T. C. ...
"A thorough analysis of the work of the late nineteenth-century Southern Cheyenne artist... (and) a useful summary of the artistic changes that occurred in Plains Indian painting as the artists responded to the drastic cultural upheavals caused by non-Indian contact". -- American Indian Culture and Research Journal
This book, being an inquiry into the creative process, is based on interviews with five significant artists of our time: Meera Mukherjee, Jogen Chowdhury, Manjit Bawa, Arpita Singh and Ganesh Pyne. They articulate, through words and through images, their personal sensibility and a particular worldview. Their vision may find resonances from myth ...
Going against the anonymity that is almost a defining condition of the arts of India, this book concerns itself with one individual painter, Nainsukh. It illustrates with detailed notes all the works known to be Nainsukh's and all the author believes can be attributed to him -- 99 works spanning the years 1730 to 1775. Nainsukh left behind a ...
Through their own words and artwork, Ian Thom examines the careers, working methods, and philosophy of forty active Native American artists, all of whom he has interviewed. Featured here are their works, often combining new materials and old traditions, as well as extensive passages from conversations with these establishd and up-and-coming ...
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