Anasazi Painted Pottery in Field Museum of Natural History; Fieldiana, Anthropology Memoirs, Vol. 5
The major essay by renowned art historian J. J. Brody traces the development of southwestern pottery from the prehistoric Anasazi through modern Pueblo. A section on pottery technology examines the different types of clays and details the pottery-makings process. Rebecca Allen has contributed an essay on the history of the Museum's southwestern collection, providing insights into the personalities of the collectors and the ways their personal tastes affected the contents of their collections. Th...
The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, owes its existence to founder Rudolf F. Haffenreffer, a New Englander who showed an early and abiding passion for the history and artifacts of Native Americans. Haffenreffer's enthusiasm, which was informed by a profound respect for contemporary natives, eventually drew him to investigate collections across North and Central America. During the 1920s, this much-respected hobbyist established a museum on his estate in Bristol, Rhode Islan...
Native American Art and the New York Avante-Garde (American Studies)
by W. Jackson Rushing
Avant-garde art between 1910 and 1950 is well known for its use of "primitive" imagery, often borrowed from traditional cultures in Africa and Oceania. Less recognized, however, is the use United States artists made of Native American art, myth, and ritual to craft a specifically American Modernist art. In this groundbreaking study, W. Jackson Rushing comprehensively explores the process by which Native American iconography was appropriated, transformed, and embodied in American avant-garde art...
From medicine wheels to the sacred pipe - explore the cultural heritage of the Native American peoples from the Navajo to the Inuit American Indians is a richly illustrated introduction to North America's amazingly diverse indigenous cultures. The book explores the important and close relationship between the peoples and their landscapes - a connection that is preserved in rich story-telling traditions. An authoritative and accessible text covers themes that have long fascinated the popular imag...
Profiles Jos £e Tena, who dreamed that someday everyone in his town would know the folk dances from when New Mexico was still a Spanish colony, and who made that dream come true through his Ballet Folklorico.
Buildings, Clothing, and Art. American Indian Contributions to the World.
by Emory Dean Keoke and Kay Marie Porterfield
In the 1960s and '70s, the notion of American Indian art was turned on its head by artists who fought against prejudice and popular cliches. At the forefront of this revolution was Scholder (1937-2005), whose portrayals of Native American life combined realism, tragedy, and spirituality with the genres of abstract expressionism and pop art. Published to coincide with an exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York City and Washington, D.C., this retrospective f...
