- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: UBC Press (Jan 1 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0774804335
- ISBN-13: 978-0774804332
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 590 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #904,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The field of Native American art history, and our idea of what comprises Indian art itself, were molded largely by the policies of the museums and institutions that established their ethnological collections in the second half of the nineteenth century. Objects housed in the great natural history museums -- collected and seen first as natural history specimens and later as 'primitive art' -- have long been considered to be normative Native American art, rather than as representative of a long and changing history. Collectors' biases against Euro-American influenced work, tourist items, and contemporary art have further distorted our understanding of the field. Such attitudes and practices have led to accusations that an imperialistic Native American art history not only developed, but also maintains, the fictions of a colonizer/colonized relationship. This collection of essays deals with the development of Native American art history as a discipline rather than with particular art works or artists. It focuses on the early anthropologists, museum curators, dealers, and collectors, and on the multiple levels of understanding and misunderstanding, appropriation and reappropriation which characterized their transactions. The essays examine major figures, art forms, institutions, and events of the early years when Native American artworks were first collected, studied, and displayed.
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Essential Reading in the Discipline,
By Arlen Speights (Oswego, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Early Years of Native American Art History: The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting (Hardcover)
This anthology illustrates the core problems in Native North American Art History by showing the paradoxes in its founding methodology. The essays deal directly with early scholars' and collectors' cultural barriers to understanding their subjects. The book provides examples of how to question the idealogical bases of what we often accept as the truth regarding the work.I've found it to be immensely useful in a course that surveys the field; students develop a better appreciation for the work by studying the wider implications of ethnography and collecting. In particular, Marvin Cohodas' essay on Louisa Keyser often opens the way to new levels of understanding the contradictions in the discipline. Anyone with a serious interest in native art should read this collection.
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Essential Reading in the Discipline,
By Arlen Speights - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Early Years of Native American Art History: The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting (Hardcover)
This anthology illustrates the core problems in Native North American Art History by showing the paradoxes in its founding methodology. The essays deal directly with early scholars' and collectors' cultural barriers to understanding their subjects. The book provides examples of how to question the idealogical bases of what we often accept as the truth regarding the work.I've found it to be immensely useful in a course that surveys the field; students develop a better appreciation for the work by studying the wider implications of ethnography and collecting. In particular, Marvin Cohodas' essay on Louisa Keyser often opens the way to new levels of understanding the contradictions in the discipline. Anyone with a serious interest in native art should read this collection. |
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