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.
- ISBN10 0192842668
- ISBN13 9780192842664
- Publish Date 1 September 1998
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 June 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 300
- Language English