Product Description
Featuring never-before-published material, The Telling of the World contains legends and stories from many Native American nations collected from both traditional and contemporary sources. These inspirational tales follow the path of life--from creation and birth, through adolescnce, love and marriage, to death and the renewal of the spirit. 120 full-color illustrations. ... Read more

Product Description
"Uncommon Legacies" celebrates the power, significance, and exceptional artistic quality of one of the most important collections of early Native American art. Assembled in the course of trade and missionary activities beginning in the late eighteenth century, the spectacular examples illustrated provide a rare opportunity to observe the creativity of Native artists in response to their interactions with non-Natives.Included here are magnificently illustrated chapters on the art of the American Southeast, the Northwest Coast, the Northeast Woodlands and Great Lakes, the Plains, and South America. Since the 1860s, the Peabody Essex Museum has displayed its Native American collections at various times as historical, archaeological, ethnological, and, most recently, as art objects. Recognition of Native American art as "art" did not occur until the mid-1930s. Prior to that time, it was considered artefact or craft, "curiosity" or "primitive art." There are more than 400 Native American cultures, each with its own distinct artistic tradition yet always open to the adoption of new forms of expression and materials in response to ever-changing conditions.Since art is created within the context of a given culture at a given time, a more complete understanding of specific objects requires an understanding of the culture in which they were created.The works presented here are expressive of worldviews, beliefs, and ways of being within each Native American community. While every group has its own approach to the creative process, each generation has to determine what values to express through the arts and how best to express those values. John R. Grimes is curator of Native American art and culture at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. Christian F. Feest is professor of anthropology at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. Mary Lou Curran is an associate curator at the Peabody Essex Museum. Other contributors include Thomas "Red Owl" Haukaas, Richard W. Hill Sr., Doreen Jensen, Duane H. King, Karen Kramer, Gerald McMaster, Peter L. Macnair, Ramiro Matos, and Jay Stewart. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

For those interested in the Anmerican Indian Civilisation
This is a unique snapshot view of the American Indians between 1820 - 1840 provided by fine portraits of their leaders, the life they lived and text describing their problems with the ever increasing number of white settlers who occupied their land. For anyone who is interested in an authentic snapshot of the life of these people, this book is highly recommended. ... Read more

Product Description
Diversity and Dialogue honors distinguished artist James Luna (Luiseño) and five fellows: installation artist and sculptor Gerald Clarke (Cahuilla), photographer and videographer Dana Claxton (Lakota), painter and installation artist Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Inupiaq/Athabascan), artist Larry Tee Harbor Jackson McNeil (Tlingit/Nisgaá), and photographer and installation artist Will Wilson (Diné).

An accompanying DVD presents James Luna's in-your-face performance works that questionstereotypes about Native Americans. Vibrant essays consider how he and the other artists produce works that are both contemporary yet expressive of a traditional worldview. ... Read more

Product Description
This is the first in a landmark series of three titles that assembles, documents, interprets, and explores the rich diversity of craft, art, and design being produced today by contemporary Native American artists.

This first volume, which focuses on Native American arts in the Southwest, includes works in a variety of media by approximately ninety artists. This series offers an opportunity to appreciate the work of pioneers defying traditional Native American cultural stereotypes and of younger artists exploring new ground.

Magnificent images of each artist's work (many never before published) are accompanied by artists' statements, biographies, and commentaries. A bibliography of Native American arts today has also been included. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Talented Hands
This 2002 publication gives the reader an excellent overview of contemporary Native American art of the Southwest.Examples from 100 of the top SW Native American artists are represented in the book and in a traveling exhibition sponsored by the American Craft Museum of NY.Both layout and photography are well done and brief bios of each artist are included.I know it was a difficult task to make the final decision of which artists to include and which to exclude.Being a collector of Hopi art, I would have liked to see a few more examples from the Hopi ... especially kachina/katsina dolls (only two in the book).It is a nice addition to any Native American art library. ... Read more

Amazon.com Review
Never mind how the West was won; this pictorial history of howit was sold is far more interesting. Harvey, who emigrated fromEngland at 15 and started out as a dishwasher, created the first chainof restaurants and railroad hotels in the U.S.--which his heirsexpanded into a virtual empire. A person traveling from Chicago toCalifornia could stop at Harvey's flagship hotel in Albuquerque andhave a complete Southwestern cultural experience without ever leavingthe hotel--or so the sales pitch went. All told, a beautifullyillustrated, down-to-earth chronicle of how Native America's culturewas bastardized for a buck. ... Read more

Product Description
Great issue of the St. Louis Art Museum bulletin from Summer 1991.About 20 color and black and white illustrations / photographs of works of art and artifacts - masks pottery, beadwork, hide painting, jewelry and other works. Includes Plains, Southwest Pueblo works, Northwest Coast art. Notes / bibliography. Softcover. 47 pages. Measures 8 1/2 by 11 inches. Interesting bulletin, nicely illustrated. ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Totem Pole, Kachina, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Timeline of Native American Art History, Sandpainting, Haida Argillite Carvings, Painting in the Americas Before Colonization, Barro Negro Pottery, National Museum of the American Indian, Wampum, Inukshuk, the Wrestler, Native American Pottery, Zuni Fetishes, Alaska Native Art, Coast Salish Art, Mola, Plains Hide Painting, Land Arts of the American West, Kiowa Five, Northwest Coast Art, Paraguayan Indian Art, Painted Rock (San Luis Obispo County, California), Bannerstone, Quillwork, Bacone School, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Ledger Art, Las Limas Monument 1, Zemi, Cuzco School, Dreamcatcher, Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990, Institute of American Indian Arts, Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park, California, Winter Count, Chilkat Weaving, Horseshoe Canyon, Catlinite, Gallery of Choctaw Native Americans, Key Marco, Pipe Bag, Ribbon Work, Santa Fe Indian Market, Mazinibaganjigan, Peyote Stitch, Dush-Toh, Woodlands Style, Barrier Canyon Style, Millsite Rock Art, Buckhorn Draw Pictograph Panel, Cherokee Artists Association, Legend Rock, Hegman Lake Pictograph, Huipil, Bird Stone, Transformation Mask, Meadow Lake Petroglyphs, Brick Stitch, Hemet Maze Stone, Parfleche, American Indian Rock Art in Minnesota Mps, Quail Rock Art Panel. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 320. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas encompasses the visual artistic traditions of the indigenous peoples of the Americas from ancient times to the present. These include works from South America, Mesoamerica, North America including Greenland, as well as Siberian Yup'ik peoples who have great cultural overlap with Native Alaskan Yup'iks. Haida totem pole, Thunderbird Park, ...http://booksllc.net/?id=20127412 ... Read more

Product Description
Exhibition Catalogue. ... Read more

Product Description
While blood quantum laws have been used to determine an individual's inclusion in a Native group, Eiteljorg fellowship artists have instead come to view themselves as belonging to the "Art Tribe," through the universal process of art creation and collaboration. Art Quantum presents a selection of the extraordinary work created by the five artists selected for the 2009 Eiteljorg Fellowship. In his essay on the long career of Edward Poitras (Gordon First Nation), Alfred Young Man (Cree) places Poitras's installations in the context of Métis and Indian identity as well as the White art establishment in Canada. Gail Tremblay (Onondaga/Micmac) illuminates the work of Jim Denomie (Ojibwa), reading his narrative paintings and intimately scaled portraits through their complex and humorous references to history, art history, and current events. Jimmie Durham (Cherokee) uses the analogy of music to explore the language of abstraction in sculptural and two-dimensional works by Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band of Choctaw/Cherokee), while the subtle and often monochromatic sculptural installations of Faye HeavyShield (Kainai-Blood) are sensitively interpreted by Lee-Ann Martin (Mohawk). The volume closes with Polly Nordstrand's (Hopi/Norwegian) reflection on the themes of longing/not belonging and placement/displacement that Wendy Red Star (Crow) documents in her photographs and appliquéd dance shawls.--It is the goal of the Eiteljorg Fellowship to be a starting point and a platform for exploration of Native identity and artistic expression beyond the concepts of blood quantum laws. Essays by James Nottage, Jennifer Complo McNutt, Ashley Holland (Cherokee), and Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche) help to situate the larger issue of Native identity in the contemporary art world. ... Read more

Product Description
This series introduces a representative selection of key art, decorative art and design of particular cultures. It looks at examples as primary examples, explaining how and what we learn about a culture by examining a piece - what does it tell us about the environment the culture is rooted in, and about the needs and pressures these create? It also explores the materials and resources the culture's environment has to offer and how the various patterns of daily life, the history, technology, ideas and beliefs determine and are reflected in the arts and crafts. Each book: - supports Key Stage 3 Art curriculum and provides a great resource for Key Stage 3 and 4. - includes excellent photographs and illustrations ... Read more

Product Description
For more than four centuries, Europeans and Euroamericans have been making written records of the spoken words of American Indians.While some commentators have assumed that these records provide absolutely reliable information about the nature of Native American oral expression, even its esthetic qualities, others have dismissed them as inherently unreliable. In Native American Verbal Art: Texts and Contexts, William Clements offers a comprehensive treatment of the intellectual and cultural constructs that have colored the textualization of Native American verbal art.Clements presents six case studies of important moments, individuals, and movements in this history.He recounts the work of the Jesuits who missionized in New France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and textualized and theorized about the verbal expressions of the Iroquoians and Algonquians to whom they were spreading Christianity.He examines in depth Henry Timberlake’s 1765 translation of a Cherokee war song that was probably the first printed English rendering of a Native American "poem." He discusses early-nineteenth-century textualizers and translators who saw in Native American verbal art a literature manqué that they could transform into a fully realized literature, with particular attention to the work of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, an Indian agent and pioneer field collector who developed this approach to its fullest. He discusses the "scientific" textualizers of the late nineteenth century who viewed Native American discourse as a data source for historical, ethnographic, and linguistic information, and he examines the work of Natalie Curtis, whose field research among the Hopis helped to launch a wave of interest in Native Americans and their verbal art that continues to the present.In addition, Clements addresses theoretical issues in the textualization, translation, and anthologizing of American Indian oral expression. In many cases the past records of Native American expression represent all we have left of an entire verbal heritage; in most cases they are all that we have of a particular heritage at a particular point in history.Covering a broad range of materials and their historical contexts, Native American Verbal Artidentifies the agendas that have informed these records and helps the reader to determine what remains useful in them. It will be a welcome addition to the fields of Native American studies and folklore. ... Read more