Solitary Raven [Paperback]

Bill Reid (Author)

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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Douglas & Mcintyre; 2 Expanded edition (Aug 17 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 155365448X
ISBN-13: 978-1553654483
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 19 x 2.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 748 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #230,286 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #91 in Books > Arts & Photography > History & Criticism > Regional > Native American

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Reid died in 1998 at the height of his fame as an artist who brought the traditional forms of his people, the Haida, into a contemporary context. He had been a journalist first, and this selection by his closest collaborator presents him during that period, when he had divorced himself from his tribal past and spoke of his people in the distancing third person: they. Becoming an artist--a midlife conversion for Reid--changed all that. Never an exploiter of the past, he pointed out in the poem-essay "The Art: An Appreciation" that the Northwest Coast artworks revered by museumgoers were nothing like traditional art, which, far from being gloomy and brooding, comprised "objects of bright pride." In a witty short-short essay, he admits the possible truth underlying the myth of the land bridge and, in a neat turn on the usual anthropological tract, shows how that myth reaffirms the truth of Raven's creation of the world. Reid's rich, thoughtful, passionate writings deserve preservation in this fine, beautifully illustrated volume. Patricia Monaghan
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